My First Fixie Build

[Skipton]

So the story is My wife and I have rented the same apartment for over ten years!
we have the perfect apartment in a great neighborhood, with great neighbors,
And a great landlord, even lets me use the basement for my shop!


A few weeks ago the landlord stopped by with a fixie someone left in a empty apt. months ago.
It was a some what crude conversion of a 1980's lugged road bike.
My job was just to put some brakes on it.... I decided to spiffy it up a bit

I seem to have lost the before pics somewhere in the computer


The pics I can find so far
sanded down the brown house paint ..and laid down some primer



I have been wanting to do this color combo for awhile.
Valspar Satin Wine Red and I think its called Sungold Yellow




Then I did spray the whole frame with a few coats of gloss clear




Assembly starts tomorrow!

Thanks for looking

[Skipton]

Lots more to come.

[cman]

Sharp looking. What bars are those?

[Skipton]

Sharp looking. What bars are those?

Thanks!

The bars are girl JC Higgins with 4 or 5 inches cut off.

Just like my son Garret's but with the "grip" cut off






Thanks again!

[Dboy9887]

Looks like an awesome build. I'm looking into building another one myself. Sweet

[Eclipse]

Looks really good! Good work.

[Skipton]

THANKS GUYS!!!

Just got it done! took it for a spin!

FAST!

Pics to come in the daylight.

[Skipton]

I work with a bunch of Fixie guys and gals, And have taken their Fixies for quick rides.

This morning I took this one on a longer shakedown run. The thing about a fixie, is it just keeps asking to go faster.

Like my "FAST" is sitting on my shoulder taunting me with " Is that the fastest you can pedal?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUDHKsb2 ... ure=colike

Going to have to build one for myself

Some before and after pics.

Got to make the seat color matching





Had Biopace on it



Fixed that


Done! All the "new parts" came out of the parts bins.





Thanks for looking!

[rife with bikes]

Nice bike! Great job.