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"The plan" (if it can be called that) is to end up ideally with a bike that can be single speed or fixed, on my fairly limited budget but with random magpie incidents.
From my post above at 258 my idea to go as cheap and functional as possible has been swayed by too much time on here. So now I have dibs on a Batavus frame, I have a cinelli stem and bars, some campag monoplanars, some tektro levers, and the campag chainset.
I'd like to convert the chainset to look like a single chainring, and the Velosolo website seems to offer a chainring that "is ideal for converting a classic Campag 53/39 square taper road crank (Centaur, Veloce, Record etc) to a single ring for fixed/singlespeed use."
I haven't a clue about wheels. I saw Varno's sets for £112 but would ideally spend half that. Not sure if wheels made specifically for single speed/fixed have advantages over normal road wheels.
Similarly, I'm not sure if there's an advantage to be had using the opportunity to stick on a wider chain.