Build virgin, friendly advise needed please

Ghost ring is dope! Gonna be all the rage in 2010 ...

Ive taken off the chainset (myself none the less)
and attached the 39t ring

slowly but ever so surely

oh and corrected the bars

go to the local shop and ask them to take the cassette out, them go to ebay and buy this, putting in and you done.

bough the cog and spacer kit off ebay, might put a 14t cog on though
Cheers Rik

hi im new to this fixed gear bikes and have got hold of a old peugeot racing bike carbolight 103 tubing steel i want to make it into a fixed gear but have no idea what to do or where to start also id like to do it cheapish and hassle free any comments will be appreciated

there's a massive thread on converting pugs - you won't get the best reception on here without reading that and sheldon brown.

hi im new to this fixed gear bikes and have got hold of a old peugeot racing bike carbolight 103 tubing steel i want to make it into a fixed gear but have no idea what to do or where to start also id like to do it cheapish and hassle free any comments will be appreciated

Find a lake, then throw the frame into it. Then run naked and wretched through the streets of London screaming incoherently and self flagellating with an inner tube.

zing! RPM Trendz Inc strikes again!

i was only asking as i would like to get my bike up and running but i suppose your typical london wankers go wank off each other and stop dressing like geography teachers oh and for fuck sake liven up a bit

You may find the 53 too high on the front - depends which cog you're having on the back, but you should aim for around 70 gear inches.
i find i spin out at 73 gear inches :S

i was only asking as i would like to get my bike up and running but i suppose your typical london wankers go wank off each other and stop dressing like geography teachers oh and for fuck sake liven up a bit

There are plenty of threads answering your question if you use the search properly, so chill the fuck out and spend a bit of time reading and working stuff out for yourself. If you can't be bothered to do some research want everything done for you then go to a bike shop.

Now where was that jizz covered tweed jacket with leather elbow patches...

i was only asking as i would like to get my bike up and running but i suppose your typical london wankers go wank off each other and stop dressing like geography teachers oh and for fuck sake liven up a bit

Nice :)

Remove all gears + cables. http://everything2.com/title/How+to+build+a+fixed+gear+bicycle

Look into chainline (read the whole site). http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chainline.html

Buy new rear wheel/hub (off ebay or here if you want it cheap). http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=fixed+rear+wheel&_sacat=See-All-Categories

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Londoner - tick
Onanist - tick
Mutual masturbator - tick
Geography teacher - fail

Can I help at all or am I precluded due to a category fail?

have a look here, to calculate the gear inches you want, but as BQ as told you something around 70inch will be ok

Rik, that's a brilliant link! cheers

i was only asking as i would like to get my bike up and running but i suppose your typical london wankers go wank off each other and stop dressing like geography teachers oh and for fuck sake liven up a bit

Ahem! It's Mr Wanker to you....!!! and for the record we're not all bad, generalizations like that won't get you any friends at all....!!! for the record...
Where might you be from that's so high and mighty and 'better'/'cooler'/'hipper'/'smarter' than London!!!???
it's really not a competition.... :(

So, you'd like some help? There's a little thing goes round here called utfs.
but just to be extra helpful i've taken the trouble to do that for you.
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread11067.html

I hope this will help you and i wish you every success on your build! always good to see more single/fixed

Snif

i was only asking as i would like to get my bike up and running but i suppose your typical london wankers go wank off each other and stop dressing like geography teachers oh and for fuck sake liven up a bit

who do you wank off?

a ghost ring?

I've never seen this done. Does it work?
technically it seems to work but it seems to have the side effect of people shouting 'you fucked it up extra cog guy' at you, if you're ok with that, go for it...

er.. at the risk of the guy at the EHCBP ch'ships being dangeruss himself and me looking a bit silly - I do seem to remember the guy with the ghost cog explaining to his rapt audience that it only works on a certain principle, namely that you have to have a certain chainring up front to create the right space to fit the (certain sized) ghost cog in to run effectively as a tensioner...am I along the right lines even though I'm not being very technical? or am I talking out my sorry arse?

and maybe, just maybe turn the bars around the right way

ha!