Building my first fixie - Vitus frame

Hi All

I'm looking to build up a fixie, I have a Vitus 979 frame, and a few other bits that came with this bike, such as brake calipers/levers/forks/seatpost.
Need some advice as to wheels that would fit the 130mm rear wheel hangers.
Can you just buy fixie wheelsets or do you have to build wheels from scratch ?
Could I fit track hubs on rear&front wheels ?
Looking to fit courier type bars but at present the headset has a Stronglight spider installed, so how do i fit the headset with a higher stem to bolt the courier bars onto ?
Can I also fit a triple chainring on front ?
Any advice would be much appreciated.

a triple chain ring up front? what, with a deraileur?

Must be a wind up. Shirley?

If its not a wind up

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/singlespeed.html

Vitus 979 has vertical dropouts. (scroll down for a pic of where the rear wheel sits)
Plenty of info out there on the interweb how to go about converting to fixed gear..
Still a nice, light, frame though.. :-)

hey how come no ones pulling people up on the fixed instead of fixie term anymore... i prefer fixed...

FIXED!

Shin

Hi All

I'm looking to build up a *fixed*, I have a Vitus 979 frame, and a few other bits that came with this bike, such as brake calipers/levers/forks/seatpost.
Need some advice as to wheels that would fit the 130mm rear wheel hangers.
Can you just buy *fixed* wheelsets or do you have to build wheels from scratch ?
Could I fit track hubs on rear&front wheels ?
Looking to fit courier type bars but at present the headset has a Stronglight spider installed, so how do i fit the headset with a higher stem to bolt the courier bars onto ?
Can I also fit a triple chainring on front ?
Any advice would be much appreciated.

better

Can't fight the tidal wave. You gotta surf it dude.

we can we can.....!!!!!!!
starting from now.

what are courier bars?

Taking a stand against (ab)usage of 'fixie':
1 - Shinscar
2 - provenrad

its not London fixie-gear and single-speed

what are courier bars?

John Snow?

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    Taking a stand against (ab)usage of 'fixie':

1 - Shinscar
2 - provenrad
3 - Chris Crash

Looking to fit courier type bars but at present the headset has a Stronglight spider installed, so how do i fit the headset with a higher stem to bolt the courier bars onto ?

This has me confuzzled. What is a spider doing there? You mean stem?

what are courier bars?

The duke on Clerkenwell road?

Stronglight briefly manufactured alloy arachnids that sat inside your steerer tube with all their legs splayed out, but these were superceded by star-fangled nuts / carbon bungs.

The duke on Clerkenwell road?

isn't that all fakengers these days?

and it's a pub, rather than a bar.

what about the foundry?

I've not visited it myself, but I've heard humans often go there to imbibe beverages

Taking a stand against people unreasonably taking a stand against newbies using the term 'fixie'

1. Nimhbus
   

Splitter!

Vitus = light, however they are flexier than a flexi disc, bought with a flexible friend.

Seeing as we are in Londons famous London of Englands chilly England...shouldn't we be saying Fixed Wheel instead?

Vitus = light, however they are flexier than a flexi disc, bought with a flexible friend.

You mean they're vertically stiff whilst being laterally compliant?

Thanks for the comments peps, i stand corrected and just want some guidance/tips on the kit to use when converting what was a derailer specced bike to a FIXED animal, best wheels to get hold of, hubs, etc, are their shops in London that have the relevant stock of Fixed parts ?