shapelike

Let's get down the the business - BMC Park Bike:



Nice.

TRaffic Jammer

frame, wheels, bar, cranks.. LET'S GO!!! Jees when I was a pup, I rocked a roadie style ten speed on the rooted dirt trails. Now I need a specific bike for everything. This is advancement?

johnprolly

yeah, if you're not breaking everything in your stable!

hehe

admrwe

60 cm kilo tt frame, mavic something wheels, sugino something crank, surly / rocket drivetrain, RAINBOW CHAIN!!

iloveboston

did you piece that chain together yourself?

admrwe

no, they had them on chariandconyc.com. though i have been considering taking it apart to put it back together into an actual pattern haha.

straws papers

Jawn P

It's called the Tioga Crazy Chain. It's an oldschool BMX chain.

J B Bell

IRO Mark V, Grip King pedals, Mavic Open Pros, Cardiff saddle (gonna turn that in for another Champion Flyer, I think), Soma Sparrow handlebars, Soma reverse brakes. 42 front chainring, 17 (free) and 16 (fixed) on the back. Still riding free till I can swap on the weekend and learn to get all 'leet with the fixed mode. Thanks Dream Cycle! Very nice, helpful guys there helped me to bring this thing to reality.

warfordium

Dream set me up with the same frame, levers, callipers, and cranks. is that the White Industries freewheel? i'm in love with that perhaps more than any other component. 2 months later i'm still a very happy man. just wish they had those Soma levers in black!!!

andre nickatina

well, backwards circles, bunnyhops and wheelies aren't exactly anything new...

MIN 

here's my bike. i might make it single speed. pm some suggestions on single speed tensioners as I do not have horizontal dropouts.

Jabba Degrassi

Don't you dare convert that, it's an awesome bike exactly as it is.

Nice photo, by the way.

jpdesjar

gorgeous!
+1 on not converting

eMwolB

Yeah...what he ^ said!

jpdesjar

love the fork

eMwolB

I love the old & new. I thought of converting my old Pinarello a few years ago and decided not to...it's still sitting in the dark. I may need to bring it back to life. (sorry for adding more non fg/ss pix) and sorry for the lousy photo, when taken it was hi-tech, floppy disk in the camera : )

Sinn

Why do you want to make it SS? Do you have a carbon fiber road bike that gets all the attention now? I don't think that this bike is 'gorgeous'. But it seems like a pretty good set up as is. Still a bit too new to make a good conversion, I think. But if you have a good reason, it may be ok.

straws papers

did you pull out your studio lights for that shot? damn

solbrothers

teh beater . i have $45 in the bike. including the cost of the bike

jpdesjar

you should turn your brake levers around so the cables will be below your horns and they could be a bit shorter, just a thought it works well on my single speed

solbrothers

werd. i have a riser bar in the mail, so when i get it ill be rocking bmx levers, this is just for fun to get the brakes all hooked up. thanks for the heads up though!!

GoodEyeCycler

Matt, where's that picture taken? looks familiar.

Probably looks like any thousand elevators around, though...

solbrothers

kaiser vallejo third floor

Jcrew689

Hey guys I've been an obsessive lurker since April and I can now finally show you my bike. I've learned basically everything I know about bikes from reading all the material presented on this site.

So this summer I was able to acquire my uncle's old Fuji road bike in the hopes of converting it to a fixed gear. Due to the lack of funds, I decided to convert it into a single speed instead of a fixed gear by reusing the rear wheel. I did this by removing the old cassette, re-spaced/re-dished the wheel and threaded on a 16 tooth shimano freewheel. I took off the outer chainring and got some short stack bolts. I was pretty surprised to see that the chainline was fairly straight. The bike rides smooth and quiet and it is a blast to ride.

I decided to repaint the frame because of the fair amount of surface rust and the condition of the existing paint job. To paint it, I stripped the frame primed, and rattled canned it using the directions from the thread about spray painting frames. The paint job was the hardest and most expensive part of the project thus far. The paint job is fairly soft so I know it will chip eventually. I'm still deciding if I should cover it with electrical tape or utilize other techniques to protect the paint job. Any ideas?

The only non-stock parts that I used are the saddle, seatpost, and front wheel. All of which I found in the dumpster during move out day at my school's dorm. If it looks a bit weird the front wheel is 700c while the back is the original 27 inch.

I know that using only a front brake on a single speed is dangerous but the other brake lever was broken so I am in the process of getting some new/used brake levers.





Any ideas on what color bar tape I should use? I think white would look nice but I know it will get dirty in a week. I used some on my old red nishiki 10-speed and it didn't stay white for too long. Maybe just some generic silver/grey tape or some light blue tape to match the frame.

It is still a work in progress and I'll probably never be finished with. This was my first experience with bike mechanics and I am just addicted to it now.

For all of you bike purists out there, the bike was pretty beat up when I got it (broken shifters/derailers, rust, paint chips) so it's not like it would have been better off leaving it as a 10 or 12 speed. I still love the classic look of an old 10 speed.