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if you mean do i hang out looking hip , playing polo and going on alley catsd - i'm afraid not - if that's what you mean by " something you don't actually partake in" if you mean 100 mile plus a week over the pennines on one fixed cog (with no lock ring!), then yes actually it's something i've been doing for years.

i've done near 100 fixed conversions from full strip and pain resto rebuilds to quick rear wheel conversions

polo style just refers to the handlebars - not being sold as a polo bike as no doubt for some reason unknown to me it won't be right oor polo.

suicide hub? i've ridden loads on my track hub with no lock ring with no problems - i've never ever had a suicide hub go suicidal on me or had any complaints on the conversions i've done - i 'm aware it's not the preference

• i'd like to get a track hub on there - if anyone wants a fixed/fixed track hub planet X 'track style' wheel i've built up = - then i can add that to the bike ( i have front as well if required) - but it's not going to keep the cost down, prorbably lookng at 80 a piece
  

cornering is scary - there's not the feedback you expect - so you need to lean out like a racing sidecar passenger or yaughtsman - but once you've got the skills you can do it. your inside leg is down which is weird and also when you're on camer you're leaning left and your mind says "better not turn right" so even though you don't want to it's like the kerb pulls you in magnetically. someone who has never riden any bike at all in their lives will handle this a lot better at first.

it's been raced at the isle man a few times.

the hub (diff) is is fixed/ free it currently has a 6 speed freewheel on and triple on the front -

wow first time on to sell something and already i'm feeling the love. - why do you feel the need to hate?

i buy and sell bikes on ebay from time to time- no secrets or appologies. it's 'yellowsweeptwo' on ebay - everyone is free to have a look at everything i've bought and sold many "brookes sadles"

luckily everything i buy off there is perfect and brought to my door and then a man comes and boxes it up for (the same guy that's done all the skilled work on it) and takes it away - no risk, no travel, no knowledge, no tools, and certainly not loads and loads of invested time sourcing bits and boxes at all.

it's a known item put together and sent by someone who knows what they're doing - there is a list of steel wheeled, crashed, seized lemon as long as my arm that i've done 40 mile round trips to pick up.

if it's easy - do it yourself (ps. here's a tip - a bike's value is not dictated by how many gears it's got on -)

actually the precedent i followed was ebay number: 280344474547

gold star for anyone who can tell me where they've seen it before ???

THAT SAID ANY SENSIBILE OFFERS TAKEN AS I MIGHT HAVE STARTED IT A BIT HIGH.

definatley seems to be an old(er) mans sport -

http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/SiteMap.html

you may as well have a look at the ebay auction for more pics and longer description (this is no longer for sale on ebay at all - moderator - only here) this is just for more info.

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it has a fixed wheel option - only available on the rarer differential equipped models (not flip flop hub so much as a flip flop diff)- chain tension is taken up by a non concentric BB carrier - like a tandem.

yes DOV - it's bl**dy scary until you deprogram your two wheel riding inituion - makes you realise how much you unconsiously rely on leaning a noraml bike - beginners always end up in the kerb due to the camber

skids - yes in fixed wheel mode -

trackstands - haha ha-
wheelie - i guess so

yes the one wheeler and conversion i saw - this was also on ebay - but never made the reserve - the asking price is the lower end of the 450 to 550 estimate given to me by members of the british trike association.

wow that was Quick reply - what happening with all this code????

anyway the front brake is a diacompe caliper on one lever and cantis on the other - both on the front - no rear brakes on these - unless you use the fixed wheel mode on it............

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[FONT=Times New Roman]approx - 54cm center to top on seat tube (with BB carrier as seen in pics) and 56cm ctoc on the top tube[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]Higgins Ultralite Reynolds 531[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]Frame is in excellent condition (everything is in excellent condition), this is the 2 wheel drive model with the differential – that also allows fixed wheel – by flipping the diff. – slack is taken up by the A- concentric BB – like a tandem BB.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]The brand new front wheel - handbuilt - 32 BD SS spokes , one sytem ex large flange hub , one silver DRC st17 rim with fabric rim tape (very like open pro but stronger as is training / touring rim – not a racing rim – very good stuff) nice - exactly what i choose to run on all my own fixies.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]Everything is pretty period stuff, I’m sure there was no real standard spec for these. The whole bike is in excellent condition – previous owner kept it very nice. A few place in the paint where it’s been touched up. All cables are a matching red. I’ve never tired the fixed gear mode - [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]it's not got the saddle shown - it's now got a white isca item[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman]450 - or swaps considered[/FONT]
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polo style beater

Miche hubs, suicide rear with BB lockring, 105 cranks, 40T/15T - new chain (plus all remaining links in cluded), cog, track nuts - rear converted to solid axle, Turbo leather - world champ stripes saddle - just under 10kg, hand grips a bit ropey - seat post free but stem seems to be stiff, MA2 rims - nice newish blus orium tyres. frame is i think 80s/90s so should be colombus apparently - has forged dropouts of courcse - and nice lugs
campag monoplanr caliper - shimano finger brake lever.

220 psoted

wheel is Ok as bits rim / hub etc. looking parclularly for that wide rim and sealed FF hub - i can do the rest

• oh yes i've got a nice DRC ST17 on system Ex aci/dtswiss DBS S wheel and a sweet 16 16 spoker too. - any interest?
  

Forget malt loaf - ti's going to have to be curry all the way!

105 / CD4, sprints on gipiemme,flip flop.
sub 8kg low pro fixie bike , clubman suoper club fixie (50s club lok a like good for 'path and track' - cyclocross -randonnuer sort of thing =- pending my arrangments for the replacement), randonneurs, loads of bars, low pro bars, mechs, levers, calipers , 650c chrome look alloy forks, mint lenton frame - all 531 fresh from renovation, i have premier frame (wil bring on request - a bit full otherwise) bag racks, posts, might have a standard B17 width swallow cut W3ST if it gets here in time - VGC b17 - 1930s - oval stamp, integral loops, loads of little things

more on request - if anyone want to see some of it's on my 'yellowsweeptwo' ebay account - i'll bring bits off there for veiw on request, AX hubs etc,

posibly getting 1960s higgins 531 trike - fixed or geared full diff on rear - both wheel drive fixed wheel possibilites - very rare - enquire -

LOOKING FOR: 1" AHEAD STEMS- AND/OR 1" AHEAD SPACERS 1" TO 1/8" AHEAD ADAPTERS? 1"CARBON FORKS WITH LARGE RAKE with MG clearance and loops canti or caliper? old school cantis - frogleg stlye but the 80s ones. white seatposts, cranks, brakes, levers - modolo, white laser, sante etc.

wide rimmed flip flop wheel - needs to be something like 719 or DCI st19 or some decent touring rim - hub preferably sealed for mud etc.

what kind of hubs / rims are on the pic. of the black one?

that chip in the chainrig is quite minimal i 've ridden bike with fully missing teeth and no problems - particularly if the chainline is straight.
re: the tyres. those are ma3 rims 15mm internal width - should be fine with 23 mm tyres - bit old school training touring rim (it's a 'silver' - unanodised ma40) pump it up and have a look. or maybe some 28mm tyres. i'm 99% sure you know this but sheldon browns site has a tyre / internal width matirx on there showing ideal tyres to widths. i think the fashion for running thinner rims with wider tyres can make the old stuff look wrong when technically it's more right. if blown up the wall is not tocuhing the ground and the cross section of the tyre is a nice semi circle it's going to be alright. i've just sold some ma40s that has 700x23 - and they looked fine once pumped up.