You are reading a single comment by @edscoble and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@edscoble
To be honest, you can get a beater for less than half that.
A popular method is to find an old road bike that's nothing special (like a basic Peugeot for example) in your size, replace the back wheel with a new one (something like £75-90) or second hand off the forum (£20-50) and you should be ready to ride, especially since your mate can 'sort' out the beater properly, or even add a spacer on the original hubs to make it into a singlespeed, even cheaper at like £10-15.
the cheaper the better, look at car boot sales, ask relative/mate if they have any old road bike etc. maybe you might even find one for free.
an example of a bike that's pretty much completely original converted into a singlespeed;
it probably only cost him £30 to get that bike.
The reason the unipack appeal to you is because it's already a fully-build singlespeed bicycle and you didn't want to spend time 'building' up the bike, right?