The Single Speed Shopper of Death™ and other shopping bike tales

Just a word of warning. Most early Shoppers are designed for 20 x 1 3/8" wheels which are quite a bit bigger than 20" BMX wheels such as Skyways. If you try to fit Skyways to one of these bikes, the brakes won't reach, even with long reach callipers. You need to look out for a late Shopper preferably from the 80s.

Yep, did wonder about this and whether you'd need spacers, cold setting (bending)! Thanks for the heads up.