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get the trek sorted. then spend the rest on booze and clunge mags.
or save up for a taste of clunge custard.
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I see so many of these bikes its almost getting to the point that i dont mind them anymore... i kinda have this warm glowing feeling inside that says fair play to them, one less car and all that.
I saw 2 today as i was going over Lbridge and gave a little smile, as to say you get it dont yer!
can i just say i ride a unipak and i know a fair bit about fixed gears... i ride it hard everyday and had no problems.... i baught one because i really wanted a fixed and was doing my exams and did not have the time to make my own bike... what unipak are doing though is really spreading fixed gear riding... and i am proud to own one even if it is a cheap bike it works for me and i can always change the shit parts like crank and front spokes
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It's not about joining any sort of Fixie elite, it's about common sense. How much was your unipack? How much are you spending on top because of shit components? They're not a bit shit, they are 100% dire. My only experience with them was from what I heard on here, but I saw someone holding their crank arm in their hand the other day. I stopped to see if he was alright, turns out he bought his Create Unipack 2 days earlier. £100/day is clearly well worth it.
For £200 you can get a much better bike. When I say better I don't mean it's got more style points, I mean it's stronger, probably lighter, and more reliable.
For £50 then perhaps it would fall into the category, "it's a bike, I get to ride it, I have a good time, that's all that matters." Not at £200.
heard it all before people slagging off unipaks because they are cheap... there not death traps i ride mine with no brakes and ride it hard and have no problems... matter of fact i ride a create unipak and im happy with it call me a novice all you want im happy with it and had no problems... but still would prefere a charge =p
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do you work for unipack?
you ride one heavy pos bike and you covet another heavy bike made of low(ish) end parts yet you claim to 'know all about fixed gears'
And they are deathtraps, just speak to all the poor bastards who've wrecked them within weeks during normal riding conditions -
and i am proud to own one even if it is a cheap bike it works for me and i can always change the shit parts like crank, frame, fork, headset, bars, stem, pedals, BB, rims, hubs, spokes, seatpost, seat, chain etc
exactly, and the kudos is that trendy cunts spend many hundreds of pounds building custom bikes that look just like unipacks, it's a real winner.
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saw a courier on one in golden square the other day.
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Feel I should add my bit as my Unipack is redundant in a couple of days.
I feel quite attached to it, bought it about four or five months ago for £149, before this thread started- probably wouldn't have if this thread had existed.
I have been riding it breakless for the last two months. Only changed the saddle pedals and tyres.
Still original chain, BB etc. I have ridden it hard, learnt to skid, ride backwards and crappy wheelies...
It pains me to see them getting slagged off so badly but I think I know why.
About a week ago I met two guys who had had unipaks for about a week and the bb were completely buggered. It must be that at some point there was a good batch but now they're all shit.I believe mine is a good one, it still runs well. Its got me heavily into a sport thats draining my funds and pissing off my girlfriend but I love it. I felt like a dick riding it for ages because of the stuff written here and the amount of them you see. But now my new ride is here I feel the least I can do is commit forum suicide and stick up for my loyal unipack.
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One of my mates up here in has a Create and i have to say (as an employed bicycle mechanic), it isn't that bad.
The guy that bought it had been riding his friends conversion around so knew about fixed wheel and wanted one.
He doesn't have internet access at home so really has very little contact with the 'scene'.
He isn't after a look or style.
He just doesn't have the time, knowledge or resources to spend hours trawling ebay looking for possible conversions or second hand fixed wheel bikes.
He has read some of the bad press that these bikes have been getting and he knows that he hasn't bought an amazing bike.
Imo unipack/create isn't the demon it's made out to be. They are selling to a market far more aware of what they are buying than the likes of halfords and if you compare what £200 can get you from halfords or argos etc to the unipack/create bikes there's a vast difference in favour of the unipack. Fair enough the halfords/argos bike will have gears and suspension and stuff which eats up the budget and accounts for the shocking quality of the parts but take fashion and the current popularity of fixie culture out the equation and you'll realise that unipack are offering a higher (but not high) quality of simple bicycle as a similar priced alternative to a heavy, very poor quality, often gimmicky mtb style bike from halfords etc.
Sure everyone (and i don't just mean people looking for a fixed wheel bike here) could spend hours learning what makes a good second-hand bike, which parts are worth buying and which aren't, what headset will fit with what fork and stem, how to rejuvinate an older, higher spec bicycle, trawling ebay and gumtree to find a suitable bike in the right size and local to them, working around sellers schedules to view and collect bikes, working on the bikes they buy.....and eventually unipack and create and halfords and argos and asda would all stop selling their crap, poor quality - perhaps even overpriced - bikes and then every single independant bike shop that makes it's money fixing these shitty piles of rust will also go out of business.
So yeah, Unipack = not that bad after all.
Rant over.
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Trouble is, for £50 more, you can get a Carrera Subway Zero, which despite coming from Halfraud, seemed like a pretty good starter (and it's alu);
http://www.halfordspressoffice.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=352&NewsAreaID=2
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I bought a Unipack back in April for 69dolla and ride it to and from work just fine.
OK I changed the crankset, BB and the chain but the rest is original, and I've had no frame or wheel problems with her so far...
Anyone considering buying one, just rememeber to change the chain and maintain the bike normally and you'll be fine.
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If it's anything like the Carrera bikes halfords sold when i worked for them then the chainset will be off it within 10miles because it looks like one of the cheap Truvative ones made of an alloy softer than cottage cheese using the incredibly crap powerspline interface, the innertubes *might *get you home before they get sliced open by either the unfinished rim joint or the razor sharp spoke holes which for some reason are cut so big that the rim tape cannot cover them, the brakes will probably be rubbing because the spring tension adjuster screws on the v brakes on most of the "higher end" bikes are incredibly hard to use without chewing the head off...i could go on. Plus it will probably have been built by an underpaid, untrained simpleton (there's a few good mechanics in the company but most of them bugger off elsewhere after a couple months working for idiot managers who view cycles as an unneccesary add on sale) who looks forward to the day you bring your broken bike into the store complaining of being involved in a mildly serious rta when it fell apart wile you were riding just because it will break up an otherwise monotonous day.
My friends unipack has suffered none of these complaints.
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Clunge! Now there's a word you don't hear often!
My local bike shop is either a cyclopedia or an Evans cycles. What should I be asking for? I don't want to mince in there lugging the frame over my shoulder and wheel it out covered in over expensive and unnecessary crap!
Also, when I did ride it I only really ever used 3 of the gears, yet it has like 15 different combinations. Can I get it set up with just 3 or 4 gears?
Cheers!
There is shit load of information on conversions already on this forum and on sheldon brown's site.
Basically you want to get a new rear wheel for your trek or maybe get an old racer from ebay.
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Unipacks certainly get one from a to b, which is all a bicycle needs to do, but are they all being put together by people who are proper bicycle mechanics? No one seems to buy them from proper bicycle shops.
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That Carrera Subway zero looks decent at that price.
May not be the coolest or the best spec, but for £250..
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Feel I should add my bit as my Unipack is redundant in a couple of days.
I feel quite attached to it, bought it about four or five months ago for £149, before this thread started- probably wouldn't have if this thread had existed.
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Clunge! Now there's a word you don't hear often!
My local bike shop is either a cyclopedia or an Evans cycles. What should I be asking for? I don't want to mince in there lugging the frame over my shoulder and wheel it out covered in over expensive and unnecessary crap!
Also, when I did ride it I only really ever used 3 of the gears, yet it has like 15 different combinations. Can I get it set up with just 3 or 4 gears?
Cheers!