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any body want to go for a spin on wed night, got the night off work for a change :)

cheers, i was just searchin for this info :)

cool to see a bit of activity in this thread. as the guy above said i brought my bike back home to the sticks with me and was out for a ride. this old guy came up on an old fixed gear bike we had a bit of a chat he was cool. must have been a vintage hipster. Spotted nice bianchi locked near the apartment today. i have seen it around a few times now, any body on here own it?

As i type this its The Horrors "Sheena is a parasite"

Cool, lookin forward to next week. Was speaking to a guy outside Botanic Gds on a charge i think. Cool guy and was up for a spin. Told him to have a look on here for this thread.

Cool, i'll def be up for it just had to go home to the rents tonight. What u usually ride i'll keep an eye out. I'm in the town all the time?

Bout 4 miles each way, 5 times a week. 20 on a Sat and a bit of a spin on a Sunday with the gf.

Dam, I have to go home tonight (Moira) i'll be cycling towpath to lisburn then on from there. Give me a shout the next time i'll be up for it.

I was shopping in dublin a couple of years ago and saw a guy stop a lights with no brakes.. I did a bit of research online, looked like fun so i built up a bike.

I like that little puch but I think thats the longest front break cable I've ever seen!

yea, i am building up a rear wheel with a coaster brake for it as my gf is used to using one on her beach cruiser. the cable was the only one lying about to use for a few days.

yes i wear a cycling cap when i'm not on my bike. i am a bad person. :)

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I live in Belfast and am thinking about getting into Fixed Gear! Any recommendations?? :)

I would recomend a conversion, for keeping the price down more than anything else. Go to the bike workshop on Laurence St and pick up a geared bike, (u will get one cheap from there the guy is cool.) then get a fixed rear wheel from Chainreactions. If you need any help or tools i can give you a hand. You are a few days late i just had a bit of a clear out there and got rid of some frames and wheels cranks etc, prob could have knocked something together for next to nothing.

You might see my old buddy Rowan knocking around. looks about 30, blad, beard, brown hair (whats left of it). He rides a load of different bikes - 1950's Freddy Grubb, 1980's Raleigh Routier conversion, dark green Dawes Galaxy, light blue Dawes Impulse etc etc etc

Cool, I'll keep an eye out. I think a few people used to meet up a while back for rides tryin to get something like that organised.

Anybody on here from Belfast and interested in meeting up to go for a spin? I have seen a few fixed gear/ss bikes around but not too many. Here is my bike, if anybody sees me around give me a shout.

I saw gallows in belfast a couple of months ago and they where amazing. Best gig i have ever been to. Had a quick chat with Frank b4 the gig and he was really cool too.

pretty much my dream bike.

i have had this bike for a while, put straight bars on today to try them out.

Leonie (Trip)'s Welsh track frame have arrived, it was designed for teenager for the track, but turn out to be a more than perfect fit for Leonie's petite 5'4 body. (48.5cm frame (TT is 54cm)), it's also a 531 double butted frame instead of the normal 531 awesomeness;

(wheel's for illustrated purpose, I'll put my Mavic CXP14 on it as she like that wheel).

it even got a nice wrap round seatpost, and a drilled BB;

Does anyone have anymore information? the BB show some serial number but the drilling has render it unreadable, all I know is that it was for the Welwyn track in Wales for schoolboy.

that is really nice, my gf is not goin to think her bike is taht nice any more tho..lol (i would leave the paint as is) :)

Been reading this thread and gettin pretty angry, i dont know how you guys put up with this level of bike theft. I live in belfast where bike theft is really low. From my experiance if it is locked up at all it will be ok. I do worry about my bike being damaged by some retard with nothing better to do tho. Usless post i know :)

Yea when the white fades a bit i think it will go with the general look of the bike. Going to keep an eye out for a brooks saddle but there is no rush on that.

she cleaned it today but i'll be the one doing the cleaning in future, so yea ur right.. lol :)

yea, the white tyres where really dirty when we got it but they come up really well with soapy water. i like the white and read so i dont mind cleaning it :)

I bought my girlfriend an electra beach cruiser a few months ago for her birthday, she has now got into cycling but needs something a bit easier to use around the city. She is looking to try riding fixed and and wanted me to convert something for her. A major thing is she wanted a bike that didnt have the sloping top tube like most ladies bikes, she is only about 5"1" or so and we thought it would be a prob finding a suitable bike. Long story short we called into the little bike workshop on the end of our street and found this. Got it for £20 and it is in perfect working order. I'm going to convert it to single speed tomorrow until i work out how to sort out a 24" fixed rear wheel :). I will be keeping the parts to return it to geared should the need arise. Pics of conversion tomorrow.

my gf and i spent a couple of hours today converting to s/s and giving it a good clean. these are the results.

After a test ride today i will be changing the brakes to bmx type leavers on the top of the drops. got new white wall tyres comming tomorrow and i will be getting a flip flop hub to be laced to the original rim.

thing about wheels, is that they needed to be build.

all you need to do is find a hub (system ex for instance), new 24" rims if the old one isn't good enough and take it to the bike shop to be build.

that's all there to it, you're highly unlikely to find a 24" fixed wheelsets out there.

thats the plan, i built it up as a bit of a ghetto single speed tonight (just using the origonal cassett sp?) going to get a flip flop hub, a rim and have a wheel built. thanks for the input.