Current Projects chat and miscellany

I bought my girlfriend an electra beach cruiser a few months ago for her birthday, she has now got into cycling but needs something a bit easier to use around the city. She is looking to try riding fixed and and wanted me to convert something for her. A major thing is she wanted a bike that didnt have the sloping top tube like most ladies bikes, she is only about 5"1" or so and we thought it would be a prob finding a suitable bike. Long story short we called into the little bike workshop on the end of our street and found this. Got it for £20 and it is in perfect working order. I'm going to convert it to single speed tomorrow until i work out how to sort out a 24" fixed rear wheel :). I will be keeping the parts to return it to geared should the need arise. Pics of conversion tomorrow.

my gf and i spent a couple of hours today converting to s/s and giving it a good clean. these are the results.

After a test ride today i will be changing the brakes to bmx type leavers on the top of the drops. got new white wall tyres comming tomorrow and i will be getting a flip flop hub to be laced to the original rim.