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Hi, I am looking to build a fixie with a flipflob hub so I can change in between!

Do you think you could give me some advice and maybe a list of parts I would need?
Cheers

if you can't work out what parts you need to build a bike, you shouldn't be building a bike. Instead of asking us to list all the parts, just think about it, or go to a shop and look at the kind of bike you want to build and work it out.

if you can't work out what parts you need to build a bike, you shouldn't be building a bike...

Bit of a dickhead response, everyone has to start somewhere.

Alex, have a look around the forum, all the info you need is somewhere on here. Use the search bar...

everyone has to start somewhere

And we suggested, with various degrees of sarcasm, that he should start with an OTP. Nobody gets their ideal bike first time, so he might as well get on something which is ready to ride, since riding is the only way to find out what you really want from a bike.

My first attempt... with many bits coming from the forum! Thanks to one and all!

Hi, I am looking to build a fixie with a flipflob hub so I can change in between!

Do you think you could give me some advice and maybe a list of parts I would need?
Cheers

Frame & Fork
Headset
Bottom bracket
Crankset
Chainring
Chain
Pedals, Clips & Straps
Stem
Bars
Brake
Brake lever
Brake cable
Bartape
Seatpost
Saddle
Rear wheel
Freewheel
Fixed cog
Front wheel
Rim tape
Tubes
Tyres

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'Updated' my RecordPro 7600s, UN91, DID chain, 7400 seatpost and frontbrake and a Corima rearwheel.
Still looking for some clips for the 7400 pedals and a DA stem.
I'll probably switch to some Syntace Stratos Zero bars later on..

Next project: the garden..

looking sweet

garden is looks perfectly acceptable too, in that low light ;)

Bit of a dickhead response, everyone has to start somewhere.

Alex, have a look around the forum, all the info you need is somewhere on here. Use the search bar...

wasn't trying to be dickish, but as you said, there is enough information out there and if you have the ability to build a bike you should be able to work out what parts you need from just thinking or looking at a bike. i'd say do the research yourself and buy what you think looks good for the bike you want to build, instead of getting people on here to do the work.

Fair enough to share individual problems with the build, or opinions on the merits of a component, but to say give me a list of parts is a bit much.

And we suggested, with various degrees of sarcasm, that he should start with an OTP. Nobody gets their ideal bike first time, so he might as well get on something which is ready to ride, since riding is the only way to find out what you really want from a bike.

Damn right. If you don't know what you want, cycle until you get a better idea.

that should be in the porn thread.

or this

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/giant-bowery-fmx-2010/

Nice. Giant using product shots of the bike with flat pedals - running the NoBrakes system. On a bike appealing to new cyclists that's a bit shitty.

I probably shouldn't show you an overview, Peter. ;)
Will, thanks. I'm still really pleased with it, but would it not have been my bike I wouldn't have posted it in Porn - too many things still of.

i'd rather show wasps up my arse than ride that giant :o

garden is looks perfectly acceptable too

Peter, you have an appartment, right ?

Frame & Fork
Headset
Bottom bracket
Crankset
Chainring
Chain
Pedals, Clips & Straps
Stem
Bars
Brake
Brake lever
Brake cable
Bartape
Seatpost
Saddle
Rear wheel
Freewheel
Fixed cog
Front wheel
Rim tape
Tubes
Tyres

(:

...and a top tube pad.

and a lockring

and a charm to dangle from under the saddle

and a front basket

and an aerospoke

yeah has to be lime green though, i'd also invest in some high quality lights....like knogs for example...

Just finished. Holdsworth Pro + Record + Cinelli, almost all sourced from here.

Frame & Fork
Headset
Bottom bracket
Crankset
Chainring
Chain
Pedals, Clips & Straps
Stem
Bars
Brake
Brake lever
Brake cable
Bartape
Seatpost
Saddle
Rear wheel
Freewheel
Fixed cog
Front wheel
Rim tape
Tubes
Tyres

(:

...and a top tube pad.

and a lockring

and a charm to dangle from under the saddle

and a front basket

and an aerospoke

yeah has to be lime green though, i'd also invest in some high quality lights....like knogs for example...

...and double Randonneurs, and take it all to Evans to be put together by the Great Scoblez.

Just finished this weekend. Pleased with the end result. Just had a quick spin and as you'd expect, it's bloody lovely.

Two points,
I would have liked to put italian gumwall clinchers on but the cheapest I could find were £40 a pop so those'll have to wait.

Yes I know they're SPD's! They're all I've got at the moment too. I'll probably change to SPD-SL at one point although putting Shimano on this would be blasphemy right?

Veloflex would look and ride nice. They're not ridiculously soft/thin either.

i know have a chain set, stem,handlebars,pedals, seat post,saddle,headset, bb, hubs and rims
now all i need are tyres and spokes and sprocket :) oh and chain.

I have a sprocket you can haz...15t