Touring on a fixed

Frank

Find a touring frame with horizontal drop outs and you are sorted. These will be pre 1990 now or some thing new from surly or similar.

I say go for a touring frame as it will have right geometry etc and also have all the braze ons you might need. However, Sheldon Brown also suggested old english roadsters with 3 speeds as good potential fixed frames.

Old steel MTB frames from before 89/90 can also be good for a conversion to fixed

Wheel quality is also critical here.

I salute sheldon brown

I dont think an old tourer would be hard to get hold of at all plenty of possible conversions kicking around as frames or complete bikes on ebay, cheers for the advice