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Found nice 90's high end 531 road bike in the street.
Tidied it up, found it scary to go fast & couldnt get on with the gears.
But realised I live in a city, mountain bikes are shit, am crap at bmxing & would be awesome to have a fast city bike (without the gears)
Remembered that people ride brakeless fixed wheel bikes around velodromes.
Sold road bike. Went to second hand bike shop, found old malliard fixed wheel, found raliegh record frame, bought more bits & built this:
Which was awkard and dangerous to ride! It however evolved to this:
Which was awesome but died soon as it was perfected.