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How can you tell that it's well made? Ball bearings are the first thing that is wearing out in cheap freewheels.
I guess it's worth trying it for that price anyway. If you're lucky it'll be the same quality as the newest shimano for the fraction of the price.

I meant the dx bmx freewheel SFMX30 which is usually around 20£ and it runs much smoother than the cheap ones and its v quiet.
Hard to say anything about those from your link, could be the same but older version.

stiil looking...

cheap freewheel won't last you long
i binned dicta after a month (it felt shit from the beginning and fell into pieces when i was trying to put it in on different wheel)
i'm on a second shimano dx - each runned smoothly for 2-3 months,

just ordered wi from ebay for 54quid - it's not a fortune

my advice - if it's your secondary bike buy any cheap - they're all crap, or shimano dx if you can find cheap on ebay
if you gonna be using it a lot it's worth spending extra on wi one (it's double the price of shimano but will probably outlast few of those)

ok, so not outbidding it's own. Still looks odd to me.

It looks odd to me. 15 bids from p***3 with 0 feedback. Outbiding own bids when no one else is biding.

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p4340.l2565&item=220800274077

Is this guy shill bidding?

Buy a Lincolnshire Poacher! That is, if On One have any left. Perfectly good copy of a vintage Road/Path, which is what you mean by track/path, the ends are OK, fancy Fleur de Lys lugs... sorted.

That looks great, i must say. The price is great too. But a head stem? That kills the look.
Another thing is, I want the bike painted the way i like, with some chroming, that's why i'm hoping to find something nice that would be worth spending extra on a proper respray.

thanks for replies guys, but i'm after a track frame...

where are you based?

It's too small for you or you can't afford it?

http://www.lfgss.com/post2206210-33878.html

http://www.lfgss.com/post2206242-33884.html

hope that people here will remember to ignore your dibs in the future

Looking for a frame for respray so doesn't really matter in what condition is the paint or if there is any at all.
Something with nice (fancy) lugs. Lightweight. 700c wheels.

I'm sure that someone here will have some unwanted tatty frame lying around...

Why the rear brake is on the other side?

DIBS, pm'd

this is good stuff to make chrome and other metal bits shiny

Hold on, this frame is so nos and so fixie that it has got another thread already
http://www.lfgss.com/thread64061.html#post2111131

Fucksake, i'll be starting a new thread each time i WIN something!

Good choice with 105s :)
You just need to get some nice pads like koolstops.

Don't make a mistake with rebuilding your bike and replacing the frame at the very end (if i understood your intentions)

how far i can go with that special tool?
i mean, is it safe to file extra 6mm in 105's?

Would tapered washer work with shimano 105's ?
I don't really see how...
I need to lower them by 6mm

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chainclean.html

They're not now being well put together, the lack of quality control on those bicycle mean certain part might be more suspectable to failure, especially the frame.

It's only a few that were put together properly to make them last a bit but it doesn't make them better quality.
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They're not now being well put together? Like they used to be? Like if putting together shitty components properly would make any difference?

I can't really believe that this thread is still coming up and some people are still considering buying a create/unipack.

Frame is not the worst thing on the bike. It's all the components that are shit.

I hope that two post on this page won't encourage anyone to buy create.

I had only the frame, seatpost and stem left from original set up after few months.
Everything else needed replacing.

Tires made of paper - holes after few months.
Chainset made of cheese - bent after few months.
Freewheel and bottom bracket got completely fucked up.
Fucked up rims - lots of punctures.
Saddle - don't even think about using that.
Pedals - noisy with the shittiest ball bearings you can find

I remember ones getting some tubes in my local cycle surgery when the guys in the shop said that they're getting lots of people with punctures on creates.

Now a bit of advice from someone who actually tried and rode create.
Stay away from it and get some used bike.

Andydale, any luck with getting the right frame back?
After starting a thread like this you need to explain how it all ended up.

True
Still, no excuse for treating customer like that.
They should say "bring your frame down to us so we can sort it out"

It shouldn't be hard to prove that you collected the wrong frame anyway. You must have some photos of it?

"there's nothing they will do" ? I can't believe it
They must have details of other people who left frames recently and should be trying to contact them to sort it out
Unless, unless they completely fucked up your frame and replaced it with the one you collected hoping that you won't notice the difference?