Help! Cheapest / Quickest way to make this single-speed...

Hello, just after a bit of advice on the quickest and hopefully the cheapest way of making this single speed... thanks in advance.

take the gear mechs off,
get a chain tool, shorten chain so it fits on one front ring and one rear ring.
ghetto single speed complete.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html

Can we have a close up picture of the rear - specifically the cassette.

Is it (the cassette) screw on or splined on a freehub body ?

remove the shifter wrap the cable round the retaining bolt and screw back into the frame, making sure the cable is at the correct tension to stay in your chosen gear.

remove the shifter wrap the cable round the retaining bolt and screw back into the frame, making sure the cable is at the correct tension to stay in your chosen gear.

Or . . . . following your train of thought . . . just turn the low limit screw up and the high limit screw down until they meet at the chosen gear.

or just stop changing gears...

or just stop changing gears...

Yeah ! masking tape around the shifter = job done.

i've also recently been looking to make the move over to a single speed, decided just to go a few weeks without changing gears to see how i liked it. my legs feel much stronger already!

as i have verticle dropouts on my frame i couldn't just straight up remove the rear deralieur and some links from my chain as there would be no way of getting the chain nice and tight. so today got myself a nice spring loaded chain tensioner and got rid of all the clunky mech. only cost me £17.. hope it helps

or just stop changing gears...

hahaha

thanks for the other replies will take a close up asap.

i've also recently been looking to make the move over to a single speed, decided just to go a few weeks without changing gears to see how i liked it. my legs feel much stronger already!

as i have verticle dropouts on my frame i couldn't just straight up remove the rear deralieur and some links from my chain as there would be no way of getting the chain nice and tight. so today got myself a nice spring loaded chain tensioner and got rid of all the clunky mech. only cost me £17.. hope it helps

cheap, effective, but vile.

how about this.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=310031351334&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=021

you need to know what kid of hub you have before you buy a conversion kit.
that one is for a freehub.
if you have a threaded hub you need a freewheel and not one of those kits.

close-up

http://benjaminreynolds.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/dsc00111.jpg

i'd leave the gears on, it's not worth the effort, it'll ride like a turd and look like piece of shit.

Looks like a screw-on ultra glide cluster to me.
You could build a suicide fix or you could run a bmx freewheel using the derailler as a tensioner. That's about as cheap as you can go. Chainline will probably need sorting. Depends how mechanically minded you are?

yeah, you need to track down the right tool to remove the gears. i've got the suntour 4 prong one, but i think you'll need a different one.
then you're gonna need to buy a bmx freewheel (i've got a pretty much unused 16t one you can buy).
you might need a tensioner on there cos those dropouts don't look they've got much room to get the tension right.
you'll also probably need to re-dish the wheel.
and as hippy says, mess around with the chainline. all you need to know is on sheldon brown's site.
if it all seems like too much work (don't be put off though cos it's not that hard), then you can always buy a new rear wheel.

cheers for the advice but i'm just going to sell it as it is as i've seen an old MKM frame i want to buy

i've also recently been looking to make the move over to a single speed, decided just to go a few weeks without changing gears to see how i liked it. my legs feel much stronger already!

as i have verticle dropouts on my frame i couldn't just straight up remove the rear deralieur and some links from my chain as there would be no way of getting the chain nice and tight. so today got myself a nice spring loaded chain tensioner and got rid of all the clunky mech. only cost me £17.. hope it helps

You can buy a White Industries ENO rear hub which allows you to tension the chain without a chain tensioner.

Not cheap though. I have one in Oz.. sitting in the fscking cupboard.. sigh

Not cheap though. I have one in Oz.. sitting in the fscking cupboard.. sigh

Can you get one of the guards to post it over ?

yeah you should do something with it..

who's actually used one? how do they perform? that's what I want to know.

I'm still hurting from my own lazyness for not bidding on a lovely road frame on ebay a year ago, it had SS couplings and vert dropouts and ended on £50 with no bids.
I was going to get an ENO hub and have the most awesomest travel bike ever.

prav had one on a GT mbt if I remember correctly.

Hey peeps,
Yes I have an ENO hub on my MTB, it's been great. I bought the pair of wheels for £100 second hand.. They had been used for a couple of thousand offroad miles. the bearings were a bit rattly, but after using them for a couple of hundred more miles I swapped them for some new ones off Ebay (£4), and it's smooth as my charm.
WI stuff seems to very well made, this hub will last forever. Despite my cackhandedness and offroading its running well. I would advise buying second hand if possible, as they are ££s new, and will last forever.
I think I saw them somewhere in the states for $130 if you want to save some ££s.

Can you get one of the guards to post it over ?

After the debacle with my HRM (12 months of looking with nothing found, I spend £200 on a new one, pow! it's found, fuck) and rather not ask any of the guards I know to look for it.

If I ever go back I'll be taking an empty suitcase and returning with large excess baggage charges :)

RPM: They were always getting good reviews from people that matter, that's why I bought one. Moved here before I got a chance to build anything with it and as it took so long to get one to Oz, I didn't want to ebay it.