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@parkie
So as a complete novice at all this, I'm planning on temporarily converting a road bike I've just bought to fixed to ride around town for the rest of the year. The plan is that ultimately, I buy will a track frame, transfer the parts and return the racer to it's original state.
This bike is a Gazelle Champion Mondial in very good shape which I believe might well be described on this forum as 'porn'.
Now, wherever I look, there are people slagging off others for converting bikes such as this as if they just threw a cat in a bin.
I'm tempted to disregard these remarks as borderline fascist but there must be some reasoning behind them so please enlighten me!