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you dont need a bike stand. Either prop it against a chair or something (installing stem etc) or lie it on the floor (installing bottom bracket/cranks etc). Bike stands are for people with too much space/money.
top, i'm glad you say that, i've always found guitar stands pretty lame and this seemed to be along the same lines...
the more minimal, simple and cheap i can keep this the better, especially as it means spending more money on the bits that matter.
i'm really really excited about this, reading sheldon's website has been an absolute inspiration, i've never even ridden a fixed gear before but i just have to give this a go, dead up for it.
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no Castro related meme?
let me down there...
can't have it all i guess, arnie...castro...quite a lot going on really.
i have a friend who is going to absolutely love that photo btw.
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I do things in this order - (if no gears involved)
seatpost
headset/forks
wheels
stem/bars
bb/chainset
chain
braks
saddle/grips/tapeThis because I don't have a bike stand, if i did wheels would go on later.
thanks for this, as you might have guessed i don't have a bike stand yet, so that's a really good tip for me!
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Get the frame painted before anything else, then just buy the parts and shove them on. Make sure you get the correct diameter seatpost, handlebars, stem etc and get the right threading on the bottom bracket, which will prob be english from graham weigh
'shoving' it all on is music to this novice's untrained ears. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the campagnolo BB that comes with it actual fits the bike, but thanks for alerting me to that issue, i'd overlooked that.
i'll be back with photos!
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Well dependent on how poor the paint work is, i'd think about keeping it original. But £80 you really can't complain too much.
does repainting compromise the frame in some way, or can it...? it's not that the paint work is particularly poor, it's a little bit chipped around the dropouts - it's just that it's bright pink and up here in the great north we're still coming to terms with the wealth of colours that the world has to offer. i was thinking of a more stately black with yellow details, like a wasp.
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hello all,
i've been gearing up (haha) to start my first fixie project ever and have been dutifully reading the sheldon brown pages and these forums, both of which have been massively useful to a n00b like myself.
i bought a graham weigh frame from ebay for £80 and am excitedly waiting for it to arrive. it comes with a campagnolo chorus BB, the forks are zeus 2000 and the frame is reynolds 531.
firstly: does £80 sound like a decent price for what i'm getting? the frame looks in pretty decent nick, i'll post pictures when it gets here. secondly, where is the best place to start when starting a project? i want to repaint the frame and am operating on a tight budget so i was thinking of doing that till next payday, but if there is like a correct order in which one should do these things i would be grateful to know it.
ta very much!
castro
i'm bach!
so, i've now received the frame + forks, looks in decent condition, i WILL post pictures, to set up that wonderful 'before/after' dynamic, but for now i have a small question:
the dropout spacing for the rear wheel is 135mm. all the reasonably priced track/fixed wheelsets that i have seen have been for 120mm. so:
is it possible to convert 120mm wheelsets to 135mm spacing with relative ease or is there a wheel/wheelset for 135mm spacing that anyone could recommend...? (the spacing on the front forks is 100mm btw)
thanks in advance...