Unipack / Create / Sports Direct singlespeed track bikes?

hmmm.....and here's me thinking id copped a bargain buying one of these.

As said previously its a good starter for the absolute novice (me)....a few more components and i might have something that resembles and passable fgss. Maybe then you wont all laugh at one of the meets. ;)

if you really need a bike for less than £200, check the SE Draft, heavy bike, but far better than the unipack

http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/product/16577/SE_Racing_Draft_SingleSpeed_Bike_2008

Think i might just save up for the charge plug racer......that's mint.

Or get the standard plug if you're not fussed by the look, it's the same bike after all, beside the handlebar.

Oh god! Now there being advertised on Facebook. What a fucking travesty.http://cyclezeal.com/Bikes.html

Chris regularly sells the Giant Bowery at Sub £200, not a bad bike http://www.chrisbikes.co.uk/bike_special_offers/index.php#5511962883373835382

No, he doesn't nick them and I don't know him.

I saw these before I started looking at piecing together my own bike, I generally find you get what you pay for and just couldnt work out why these were so cheap/good (to the untrained eye as ed said). Turns out I was right to be suspicious.

so if i'm broke, any advice on what to try to scrape the penny's together for?

Oh god! Now there being advertised on Facebook. What a fucking travesty.http://cyclezeal.com/Bikes.html

What a shitty website.

What a shitty website.

Yeah I hate Facebook too.

That Unipack one is crap also.

so if i'm broke, any advice on what to try to scrape the penny's together for?

quite simple really, ask your relative, friends, etc. if they have any old road bike, and then go through the task of removing all the necessary bike (apart from brake, if you're going down the singlespeed route, keep two brakes, if fixed, one front one).

either get a 2nd hand or new rear wheel with fixed hubs (or a flip flop one that have fixed on one side and free on the other), and you're pretty much getting there.

can be easily done for less than £100, probably even £50 if you managed to find a free road bike from your relative.

Hi all,
I'm sure you'll all be suprised to hear that all is well!
Over 2 weeks of occasional a to b riding, hopping up, dropping down curbs and general round town stuff and nothing has broken (yet).
I'm 14 stone 7lbs and have ridden with rucksack full of shopping for probably a third of the time. Only done about 150 miles tho'
Would you believe it if I said the wheels still run true?
Taken the back break off and thinking of taking off the free wheel from the other side of the hub, if I do it should get down to the 24lbs stated weight for the bike (just over at the moment)

on another note, is it just me that thinks the frame looks a lot like the charge plug? (sorry if this offends Plug riders)

WOW, I'm sold. Definitely gonna get one now.

Over 2 weeks of occasional a to b riding

You've obviously given it a thorough going over then..

dont be too hard. giant TCR gets used for the long rides, the unipack was only ever going to be for a bit of fun because I was missing my other fixed (still to bring it over from Spain) I just expected it to be in a corner of the garage in need of new parts by now, fat lad and cheep bike and all that.'

Yea, its a cheap bike, so dont expect the creators to go thorough all the R 'n D shit when they can just steal a commonly known, trustable geometry.

And yea, the unipacks Geo is nearly 100% the same as the plug.

Yea, its a cheap bike, so dont expect the creators to go thorough all the R 'n D shit when they can just steal a commonly known, trustable geometry.

And yea, the unipacks Geo is nearly 100% the same as the plug.

Are there any plug copies out there? some stickers and a change of wheels and instant acceptance into the fold. No longer a unipack lepper.

if this update was added to the initial thread it would make it more interesting, rather than starting a new thread each time a component was changed

Hi all,
I'm sure you'll all be suprised to hear that all is well!
Over 2 weeks of occasional a to b riding, hopping up, dropping down curbs and general round town stuff and nothing has broken (yet).
I'm 14 stone 7lbs and have ridden with rucksack full of shopping for probably a third of the time. Only done about 150 miles tho'
Would you believe it if I said the wheels still run true?
Taken the back break off and thinking of taking off the free wheel from the other side of the hub, if I do it should get down to the 24lbs stated weight for the bike (just over at the moment)

on another note, is it just me that thinks the frame looks a lot like the charge plug? (sorry if this offends Plug riders)

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Sorry,
http://www.londonfgss.com/newpostinthread14866.html

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not an expirienced forum poster.

thinking of taking off the free wheel from the other side of the hub,

Sorry, but what does this mean?

I'm going to assume your running one break on a freewheel? your not really going to save much weight doing this (*assuming you've a unipac frame) and this is dangerous.

I think they come with a flip flop hub, he's riding the fixed side w/front brake and wants to remove the freewheel from the other side of the hub. (I'm guessing anyway)

No. the hub is a "flip flop" and I'm only using the fixed cog. I have only ever ridden with a front brake when riding fixed and the free wheel cog on the other side will save me a little weight (about the same as a little poo) as it isn't and never will be used.

with that kind of weight saving you will go a massive 1 mph faster!!!!!

The man is happy. Good let him be.