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the velodrome in rome is rottening, completely abandoned...
http://www.bbike.it/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=129
this is the website of the only shop that knows what a fixed gear used on the road means...
but if you have some time the best thing to do is to go around the old cycling shops around town and ask for track frames (telai da pista) there are cellars full of track stuff around..just forgot there from the 80s...
if you are lucky enough to find some stuff you will get it for really cheap...like frame a with good tubing for 200-250 euros...

good luck!

oh contact also the guy of this website:

http://www.movimentofisso.it/
he should be from rome...

some friend of mine put one on his dirt jump MTB and he had to buy just one, the only thing is that they are weaker than a normal chain as the links are asymmetric...

cool, good and precise advices! thanks Tommy
I was thinking about checking if a mtb wheel can fit but I was quite unsure about the mesurements, about re-dishing and re-spacing I'm not worried about...
I'll try this way..
thanks Snowy but I just finished respraying the frame and cleaning all the other bits...

another thing... I got bored of my frame, It's one size too big for me, (58 instead of 56) it's nothing special but a good and solid machine, is an alu trackish frame (is a bit relaxed as geometry and can mount mudguards) with an alpina carbon fork. Do you know anybody who has the opposite problem and might want to swap frame? (maybe I have to open a new topic eh..)

Marco

unfortunately I had the great Idea of getting the guy at two wheels good (crouch end LBS) to try that way as I didn't have the freewheel tool... result the cunt destroyed the cut for the tool on the freewheel and was anyway asking for 5 pounds for the time he lost trying that...

I'm building up a singlespeed for my girlfriend out of a 70-80s ladies racer, the bike was in crappy condition but now everything is fine but the rear weel.. the 5 speed freewheel is in love with the hub and no way to separate them...I tried in every everything: few days bathing in WD-40, the proper tool, some improper tool, heavy hammer..no way.
the original wheel has a tyre of 26" X 1 1/4", the rim should be 1" wide...
anybody has an old one laying around?

g9 is a cool camera, but way far from the quality of a digital back combined with hasselblad or even from a d200... the sensor is small and quite noisy (the tones in the sky and low lights are always a bit fuzzy), and the lens is not bad but nothing amazing..I have one as well but I use it mainly for non work pictures, it's great to be a compact but that's it. The only great feature is the flash sync at 1/2500..

I'm from not far from there, prior to move to London I lived for a long while in Torino (Turin)...
most people in italy is riding single speed bikes like this:

or in the best case like this:

and in the last few years it happened also to see a wave of fixed gear riders...but way less HHS than here...
there's also to say that's so easy to find lovely track frame for cheap, really cheap till now. I found my frame in the cellar of a shop collecting dust with other 20-30 track frames...
now of course it's becoming fashionable and so prices are growing...but still not so much..
shame there are almost no velodromes...
and just fakengers as there are no courier companies that employ bike couriers..
but lately lot of alley cats with load of people taking part...

that's bad....
he was a great man!
rip

I'll probably be there anyway tomorrow to have some boulder problems solved, more or less 6.30- 7
it's 11 for guests...

I'm member at the castle, so I can take 2 beginners or people not signed, Wednesday would be ok, but why don't we go just bouldering? more fun for the beginners and is nice to do in group(s)..

I just restarted climbing not a long ago, I've seen a lot of fixed gear bikes in the castle pike parking...
I would be definitely up to meet some of you there!

1. mashton
   
2. Tommy (beginner)
   
3. Momentum
   
4. Scrapper (beginner)
   
5. lucky
   
6. Sol (maybe)
   
7. andyf
   
8. Hutch
   
9. Pepperoni
   

Probably was a shop that was also building (or maybe just branding) bikes...
on italian yellow pages I found this:

Lissignoli Gino & C. S.N.C.
Via Europa,110
25050 Passirano

Tel.: (+39) 0306850658

It's in a place in north italy, next to Iseo lake, was quite usual in the '80s to buy stock of frames with other shops from a frame builder, and then just pain and brand them. the only difference now is that the frame builder is in taiwan or china and is not using columbus tubing :P

colour blindness in one of it's worst expressions: a pimped langster...

thanx a lot to everybody!
think I'll get the very cheap tubular wheelset from snowy_again and then I'll get some wheels from Paul of kiwy cycles, I've seen he sells a set of formula laced to cfx for 75...looks a good deal... what you think of these wheels?

@snowy_again my mail is: marco (at) danteskatecrew.com

uh...

isn't the shimano 105 a 9 speed hub?
anyway, if you want to send a picture marco (at) danteskatecrew.com

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I've seen it... it's over budget unfortunately.. I was looking for something like on-one hubs or alienbikes... anyway *really *cheap...

Hi!
The conversion I was riding here in London is going really crap, and I don't want to take here in the humid the steel track frame I ride in italy.. so I'm getting a aluminium track frame, I have all the rest of the parts, but to get it rolling I still need wheels! So anybody has a cheap wheel set to sell or in case a couple of (cheap) hubs to sell??
thanks everybody!

lol...
;)

I got my frame from the builder in Turin that is pretty neat to France, it's pretty easy that they where using the same components...
what's more, from what you were saying of the stickers I don't think it can be italian...

remove the paint on your own and just get the paint work done...think you would save a lot!
what is the size?
it really looks a twin of my italian frame...

it's a relatively recent cinelli bb cos of the logo, maybe early '90
but the frame is not a cinelli..
in italy I have a track frame from end of the '80 that has the cinelli bb box as well, but different logo. My frame have been built by a local italian frame builder using columbus tubing with campagnolo drop outs...
usually the cinelli bb box and quality drop outs were used with quality tubing to build custom or just hand-build frames.
some of theese frames were not welded but chemically glued.
anyway I would restore it...
otherwise i'm looking for a frame to use here in london....

the rotafix method works quite good, i used it for 8 month on a bike few years ago and i'm using it now here in london on the crappy conversion i'm riding around..
I never used any loctite but a little trick: put a spacer on the thread before the cog, it works as a washer and the cog will not unscrew as easy as it would just with loctite....
i'm no more used to brakes cos in the last years i've been riding a brakeless track frame, on the bike i'm using around london i put a front brake cos of the "suicide" hub but i think i never touched the lever, skidding my stops etc... the brake stays there just in case..
anyway I wouldn't ride a rotafixed hub brakeless as few people in milan do...

the bike used for the photoshop artwork is from the guy of this fg/ss italian blog: http://www.bicifissa.blogspot.com/
and now it has front arrospok...
the next step will be the photos of mr Kanye West learning how to skid in an empty parking lot or vip's only bike polo?