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@mattia
I'm kind of a newbie and I wanted to build my first "cheap" conversion
Went in BLB with a frame I got off eBay (a very nice road Peugeot / SuperVitus), I wanted a very cheap way to adjust the chainline to begin, just to try the "fixie" experience (after which, btw, I never used freewheel anymore)
After treating me like an idiot they tried to sell me almost everything they had in the shop, pointing out that I was an ignorant and everything they were proposing me was absolutely indispensable to begin riding.
They asked me something like 150 quids to buy new crank set, bottom bracket, chainring etc. telling me that there was no other way to adjust the chainline but changing everything
I went to sheldon's, got some shims off ebay the very same day, £3.99, and never went back to BLB ever since