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Technically it opened in May this year despite been built last yeah, but yeah its unfortunately quiet up here.

Nice work! I'd treat this to a smart alloy seat post

Deffo on the cards, thing is its 24.0mm. I have considered getting a piece of 24mm diameter carbon fibre rod and adding an alloy head to it from a normal micro adjust post, but I don't think there will be enough material in the alloy head to fit inside the rod so plan B: I can get a 24.0mm stem from eBay (Germany) for £22, the biggest thing holding me back (aswell as not liking spending money) is its silver, where as black would be ideal. However it looks like this is the road I will go down. (I know decathlon have a cheap one at 23.4mm that I could shim, but its zero offset and I think I need some offset (and I just looked at it again and its currently out of stock)).

not sure if you can be relegated to HHSB, but you will certainly find yourself in anti with a snowflake laced wheel!

I can live with that lol. I think it would be worse if I paid someone for a snowflake, but if I do it I will be lacing it myself which will give me a certain satisfaction even if the haters hate.

Ive built up a carbon wheel for it now, I think it balances well with the carbon fork and I like the whole old school steel with new school carbon thing going on, I guess it may get me relegated to the HHSB but so be it.

Only thing is now the galvanised spokes on the front wheel are annoying me, and the fact that the hub logo doesnt line up with the valve hole on the front wheel ha. Further down the line I reckon a new suitable hub to go radial, or I may itch the temptation to build a snowflake on the front ha.

Middlesbrough - Clairville Stadium (as currently listed on first page) has been bulldozed.

Middlesbrough - Velodrome @ Middlesbrough Sports Village, Alan Peacock Way, Middlesbrough, TS4 3AE has opened. 01642 728555 or email msv@middlesbrough.gov.uk

Surface: Tarmac (outdoor)

Distance: 250m

http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=13622

Its been a long time in coming (had a number of none bike related projects to do including, decorating, building a quadcopter and building a table for the wife), eventually got back onto the bike and here it is, not everyones cup of tea but I love it:

new rear wheel is in the pipeline, and a less crap seatpost at some point, oh and plastic pedals, not that Im a weight weenie or anything but the current ones (DMT V6's) are excessively heavy.

Thanks everyone. I know what Im doing now.

I liked the sound of the fixed MTB by the way.

Its not really a fixed MTB though as it now has 700c wheels on it, it just still has an mtb frame. tires are 28c so on my none commuting rides I do a lot of gravel path stuff (farm tracks, converted railway lines etc, nothing hardcore I have another bike for that). info on the bike herehttp://www.lfgss.com/conversations/263535/#comment12139811 Ive just about got everything to do the frame swap now, need to add decals and lacquer first then time to build.

ah yes I guess the frame spacing is relevant (though not sure what OLD stands for?).

I measured the frame it measures 123mm, so I guess its a 120mm -with 1.5mm either side that would nip up when tightening. (it is a 1980 Peugout, it was 10 speed so 120mm would make sense). likewise if I build the wheel at 125 it would 'fit' .

I just want to get the cog lined up in a sensible place, then build & dish the wheel to suit.

My current frame is actually an old steel MTB (yeah yeah I know, but it kinda evolved to SS, then 700c fixed gear wheels). Anyway you will be glad to know I am rectifying that and putting a road bike frame on it.

I had respaced my rear wheel to suit the wider frame and now need to respace it back to how it should be. (also I am currently gathering bits to build a new back wheel over christmas which will use a front disc hub with a bolt on cog respaced as a rear, yes I know its over kill and a properly fitted cog wont come off, but sometimes I like a bit of overkill, so I will want to space this wheel properly)

What should the distance as marked below be:

nice, Im not loving the handlebars but the rest I'd ride all day long.

As I started reading I was like "thats my kindof build", some of the latter decisions didnt suit me but hey we are all different. I can fully appreciate a bike that has had the time spent on it.

its pretty dead around these parts (as far as I know). I'd be up for coming along though, I dont have much free time but if I can come I will.

in regards to frame, don't paint it, leave as it.

yep definitely tempted to throw a chain on and call it done (well after re-spacing the rear wheel etc),

but my wife moans at me when I rock the rat look, so I'm going to make this one shiny :)

Look like it's more trouble than it's worth

Yes, especially if I charged my own time out by the hour, but as it is I like to tinker so it suits me fine as a project. I have 2 other bikes I can ride but I cant ride whilst looking after the kids (well not all the time, naturally I do take them on bike rides), I can tinker whilst the wife is out and Im 'stuck in'.

let see if you can removed the BB and seatpost.

Seatpost is out. none drive side of the BB was no problem, but yeah you called it: the drive crank stripped trying to remove it, I may hacksaw it off (wouldnt be the first time), all in the fun of tinkering with old things.

I think I will lookout for some cheap 1" carbon forks and convert it to Aheadset.

so, nothing fancy, so if your looking for bike porn look elsewhere ha.
So basically my current fixed gear is 700c wheels on an old mtb frame (see here) so Ive decided to put a road frame on it.

Picked up this locally:

Its a 1983 Peugeot Pure Gold. Its got a way to go yet but I'll get it there :)

Thanks guys. yeah it is fully bits and bobs, including the brake lever that I've had since 1997, glad to put it back in use.

Edit: see here for new frame and progress on bike: http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/270544/

So to explain where I'm coming from with this bike It probably helps to have some background, It's not going to be a thread for the purists, and haters are going to hate, but I'm posting anyway to show my angle on things.

I've always been into bikes, I spent my mid to late teens doing a lot of MTBing. After that following moving to Hull, and numerous years of having a car and my MTB long since been deceased I decided I should start riding again to keep fit if nothing else. I didn’t have money for a proper bike at the time so picked up a late 90's Rayleigh (sorry but the MTBer in me couldn’t bring myself to get a road bike) it was given to me as it was wrecked (needed all new cables and a back wheel) I got it up and running for next to nothing (about 6 years ago). Here's a picture (actually not my pic, but a google image of the same bike):

It did me for a while, then along with a move further up north where's there's more hills I bought a proper MTB (but that’s not for this thread/forum). I'd kept hold of the Rayleigh, it was my towing bike for pulling the trailer with the kids in it, and also handy as a spare for a friend to borrow for light rides.

After a change of jobs I ended up commuting, it was only short (<2mile) and again the MTBer in me was resisting a road bike, in my head I justified it by saying I'll get more out of the journey on an MTB and the geometry will match closer to my MTB and keep the right muscles in shape. I kept changing bits here and there on the bike, I had picked up a second hand saddle when I was getting some other bits for my other bike, it was white, so I took the white flat bars off my wifes old bike to match.

After a while I decided I should go single speed, whilst I was at it I raw'ed the frame, its dark as I covered it in Krust rust inhibitor before lacquering it. It lasted a while, but eventually had many parts of the laquer giving up so I stripped the lacquer and just waxoiled it instead, that kinda worked but took a lot of reapplying in winter.

Eventually I gave up on raw and painted it:

And in off road mode (this was more of a one off as I've got a proper MTB for that):

I acquired some 700c wheels from a friend (with flipflop hub, he'd done the artwork on the wheels), I measured things up and there was enough clearance on the frame, the rear one was very bent but I managed to true it (though the tensions are uneven to say the least). I figured why not (on day I'll put a proper frame on it), I put a longer axel on the rear to suit the wider mtb frame spacing. Here it is (awaiting solving the brake and pedal situation -I needed a long drop calliper for the front).

Here it is after I hacksawed off the brake mounts, and painted the forks (and where If chopped of mounts):

I've now changed the bars, the paint on the frame wasn't holding up so I wrapped it with tape, cheapest easiest robust paint job:

I am loving it. I still love my MTB, though my usual MTB ride generally involves putting the bike in the car and heading for the hills first, then there's the rigmarole of cleaning it. So I do often just go for a blast on this bike to keep the fitness up, going fixed has really added a lot to these rides, I'm loving the experience (even though I'm expecting the haters to hate my bike ha).

Yeah practice it is then.

Is there a better part of the pedal stroke to catch it? I'm thinking at the bottom, or when it's furthest forward (as then is moving towards your foot for the next half stroke, rather than away)

So bit of a noob question I'm afraid. I'm not new to bikes but new to fixed. Naturally there are a few things to get used to of which I'm getting there on most.

I've just got my footstaps, so the setup is some old wellgo V8 pedals with some wide velcro straps. now I've ridden with straps before many years ago, I had DIYed these and they were diagonal which does make it easier, but the biggest difference I am finding is trying to get my foot in whilst the pedals are going round. I was better at it today than yesterday but surely there's some tricks to make it easier that you can recommend?

Just thought I'd stick a post up to hi from another Teesside member, would be good if a scene did get off the ground round these parts.

Up in Teesside. When it comes to bike I'm mostly into MTB but have been commuting on a SS for nearly 2 years then recently converted it to fixed.