For Sale: Upright Fixie Ride with Strong Track Frame

Cartridge bearings are failing all the time on all wheels that use them, that's why shimano never uses them. I have been riding my cone bearings hubs for two years with just a clean up once in a while, zero failures

rims are made as good as name brand rims (material and build quality), just because they don't have a recognised brand name, doesn't make them any worse

spot welding is where you place melted material in gaps between two parts to in a sense, 'glue' them together preventing the steel chainring from just turning round and round on the aluminium crank arms. It's cheap way to do it, but it's effective for the most part. Not as nice as a cold forged crank with chainring bolts for the chainring, but cheap cranks are cheap cranks

It looks pretty powerful to me, and a £70 discount for lfgss members (that's more than 25%) is very generous. If you needed a new bike, and you didn't not snap it up, you'd be mad.

cheap steel versus good quality aluminium

good steel is the most superior but costs a lot more

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you don't do them in another colour perhaps? like a gorgeous.......oohh....I dunno.....blue?

spot welding is where you place melted material in gaps between two parts to in a sense, 'glue' them together

When you're in a hole, stop digging. Spot welding is one of the few techniques which doesn't use any kind of filler rod. And you can't weld steel rings to aluminium cranks, even if you wanted to. Those cheap cranks with non replaceable rings have the ring swaged to the crank.

I skipped colours to keep the price down and give people a better frame and wheels

It looks pretty powerful to me, and a £70 discount for lfgss members (that's more than 25%) is very generous. If you needed a new bike, and you didn't not snap it up, you'd be mad.

But they clearly don't like little people that they only have 56cm.

And can I be an ass for a moment? The website really puts me off, my eyes don't know where to look, it's not an attractive site at all.

cheap steel versus good quality aluminium

Cheap steel might fail due to very bad welding, but other than that it is likely to have an infinite fatigue life in bicycle service, thanks to the low stress implied by heavy tubing guages. There is no loading below which aluminium has an infinite fatigue life.

To replace a cartridge bearing is a few pound from a bearing stockist and it replaces all the bearing surfaces. Replacing a cone bearing setup is cheaper until you have to replace the cone and the bearing race. You also have to hope that the company is still making the bearing races with older hubs. Have you actually asked Mr.Shimano why they use cone bearings or it that just a general assumption on the fact that they do carry on using them. Mavic use cartidge bearings, as do Hope, Profile and several other very well known companies.

You keep saying that your choice of materials is better than any other cheap bike around, yet you are shy of naming and spelling out exactly why they are better. How do you know that your aluminium frame is better than a Create? Have you tested a Create? Have you asked them how much their generic chinese frame set them back over your generic chinese aluminium frame?

extra - you're not being an ass - that's the kind of feedback I need

mdcc_tester - I stand corrected about the welding, but cheap steel frames have tons of issues, like tubing flaring from constant use and because the drop outs are made so thin and flimsy they lead to failures. The steel itself lends itself to lots of oxidisation, more then aluminium and more problems.

Much cheaper here http://www.sportsdirect.com/universal-track-bike-939429 and all steel !

a ha! and in a gorgeous baby white

and worth every penny

a ha! and in a gorgeous baby white

Nothing wrong with white frames (as long as it's only the frame).

I skipped colours to keep the price down and give people a better frame and wheels

Hipsters want colours! then they can spend stupid amounts of monies on colourful arrospoks that don't match and maim themselves when all the cheap components they've not replaced.

Also, do yourself a favour and sort out that gash looking website. I've seen better looking geocities pages!

/retro

Just for laughs, read this:
http://www.pisquaredbikes.com/assembly.html

I hope n are smaller than the SI force unit N, otherwise I don't fancy the chances of all those bolts being tightened to 20nm[sic]

Conversely, using only 20nm[sic] on the pedals will make the life of those cheap and nasty cranks pretty short as the pedals loosen in service and wreck the threads as noobs ride around with loose pedals.

Cheap steel might fail due to very bad welding, but other than that it is likely to have an infinite fatigue life in bicycle service, thanks to the low stress implied by heavy tubing guages. There is no loading below which aluminium has an infinite fatigue life.

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Bloomin 'eck they aren't that bad.

What will £180 get you from halfords or the like? A full sus steel BSO that is heavy enough to be a two man lift with plastic brake levers, plastic coated pressed metal v brake arms and geas that never work.

At least this guy is halfway honest about the fact that the bikes are kinda crappy.

What will £180 get you from halfords or the like?

This rather nice B'Twin and £20 change
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/elops-3-ii-172069889/

Just for laughs, read this:
http://www.pisquaredbikes.com/assembly.html

You have to true the wheels yourself once you get it?

If you want feedback then maybe you should have started your thread on the general section or the bike & bits rather than here, this is for selling stuff not for getting feedback. You are either selling or you are not. If you are selling then you can't sell on ebay at the same time. If you are after feedback you shouldn't be selling.

Be gentle my friend, there are so few people trying to make a difference to the "fixie bike" market, he probably needs our support more than anything...
andwags: can you do custom orders? I'd like mine a different colour and a Chris King headset, how much would it cost?

Another £50 would have got you:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread66709.html

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No one is expecting <200£ bike to perform well and last forever but there are other options, more eye pleasing than yours.
How about giving us your 'fixie' for testing?