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@Gingerjoe
im seriously that noob that I dont have a clue what you lot are going on about, I used to ride bmx, mate got me into fixedd a little while ago, bough the bike of a friend for 50 to do a conversion, didnt have the money to go buy a stupidly expensive bike, Just wanted something to cruise about on & have a bit of fun ( & no I didnt buy it because there " cool " & its the thing to do, well into anything tbh, love my hobbies, been skateboarding for 7 years, though something new would be a change! it doesnt have any brakes because its fixed & I havnt even rode it because of the chain alining situation as I dont want to bust it, my friend gave me the crank & chain ring, but didnt have the opposite side, so we used the crank arm allready on one side & Just changed the ring & crank arm on the other, the line up is bad & on the rear rixed cog, it sticks, but the free wheel is fine because it sits out a little more, I went to geoff wiles & he said the bottom bracket cant be changed for some reason? he said to either get a shorter spindal or put a spacer between the rear fixed, but I will only be able to get about a mm spacer otherwise the thread will slip! Sorry for the rant! But seriously only been helped by like 2 people on this forum, other than that I get sarcy comments or just plain stupidness, Ive hurd from so many people not to even bother joining because thats all it is, but I needed help & didnt wanna take other peoples words, but tbh its pretty true, I just wanted a little help with something that I though I would enjoy, sorry I bough the wrong frame! sorry I dont know alot, but thats Just how it is, I cant expect to be genius at it in 5 mins im affraid, Im picking up another bike from a dude on freecycle on sunday, might be better, ill look, anywho bed time, work tomorow, tar for people that did help, rant over. Night