junktower

what do people consider the dream fixed-gear for street use if cost is not a concern (within reason, obviously). custom frame? material? builder? (near NYC would be good) all those other do-dads.

thanks for any suggestions,

j

dutret

do you want practicality or bling?

junktower

80% practical + 20% bling (but would be curious as to other combinations)

eddiebrannan

johnny coast custom. steel

dutret

-moderately priced off the rack steel or Al frame(depending on what weather you'll be riding in). Unless you are bizzarely proportioned custom is a waste for a newbies street bike. A moderately priced frame will hold up alot better then a more expensive one.
-cane creek s2(king for bling)
-shimano un-73(phil for bling)
-moderately priced ritchey(or equivalent level ie easton, fsa etc) stem and seatpost.(thomson for bling)
-formula/dtcomp/openpro(phil/dtcomp/deepv for bling
-ergo road drops(nitto steel track drops for bling)
-canecreek scr-5 right hood and actual dummy for the left.(no brakes for bling)
-105 front brake(campy skeleton for bling.)
-sugino rd with tacomp ring(75 for bling.)
-whatever pedals/saddle you prefer.


If you want to go for pure bling
custom nagasawa
araya disks(front and back)
everything else njs.

San Rensho 

80's Colnago track bike, full campy, clement Criterium sew ups.

Sold one a couple of years ago (not full campy) for $750. It was on consignemt at a bike shop that specialized in BMX doo doo. Paid $125 for it, it had been ridden at most a dozen times.

Way too big a frame for me.

junktower

some add'l info: i'm 6'4'' ~200lbs and find my current steel IRO frame to be rather flexy

vinnydelnegro

"cost no object"......first of all, i hate you.

to answer your question, i would get a custom built up by vanilla. hubs would be phils, laced to mavics or velocitys. thomson stem and seatpost. king headset, brooks swift titanium rail saddle and brooks bar tape. i'm not super passionate about the rest, but if cost was no object, they'd be nice for sure.

edit: i just realized that the thomson stem and seatpost is silly since vanilla makes the most awesome stems i've ever seen. don't they also make seatposts? i'm too lazy to check. also, if not a vanilla, a jonny cycles would be my second choice.

sfcrossrider

www.antbikemike.com

If you can't pick out the dream bike... you're a ******. A ****** I tell ya.

(Major Taylor you silly ******.)

Serendipper 

I'm picking RAL codes for my dream bike right now. I decided that there is no time like the present, and yes, a custom bike is worth as much as a small car to me.

And yes, my dream bike will be fixed. I'm trying to get a rear disc fixed hub, then it would be perfect.

A moderately priced frame will hold up better than a more expensive one? Well that depends, now doesn't it?

Every tube will be custom on my bike. The bars will be welded to the forks.Good luck on trying to find a real custom like that in an LBS.

Congrats on your project! This is a really exciting process, I love it. It really gives me something to look forward to...

Shiznaz

Hey, what about YOUR dream fixed gear? I don't need to see another ********ly nice NJS or italian track bike that everyone will suggest.

Shiznaz

Don't crash it or you'll be stuck with a funny looking bike you can't change the bars on!

Serendipper 

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

But seriously, I will have the same conundrum a man with a custom Ferrari has...


"Nice day out...do I take the Ferrari? Nah, I might dent a fender...."

Sheeet. I'm taking the Ferrari, homeboy. Vehicles are for driving, not fretting over!

dogpound

I 2nd vanilla

p3ntuprage

i've been having naughty thoughts about the following:

frame:

• softride beam [i know some of you are going to wretch at that one]
• lattice type frame [like moultons], maybe even stainless steel?
• tabs for discs, mounts for v-brakes, drilled for calipers
• tabs for racks front and rear
• sliding vertical dropouts [like on one], long enough so that a 19mm tyre touches the bb when it's fully forward, but there's enough space to fit a 38mm tyre or bigger.

components:

• campagnolo 07 cranks/bb
• royce hubs, nimble horse/fly rims, 32x3cross sapim cx-ray spokes, tubulars
• 130mm hubs front and rear?
• avid ball bearing 7 cable disc brakes
• chris king headset
• adjustable [reach/angle] stem with removable face, nitto 021 or 3t moscow bullhorns, campagnolo carbon brake levers
• tune speedneedle/ax lightness/m2racer saddle

it would be... strange.

fsnl
sparky

dutret

Maybe their are a few exceptions but not many. As premade frames get more expensive they get made with stonger yet less ductile alloys and thinner walls. Both of these lead to a frames that won't hold up as well.


I also don't understand the bars welded to fork thing. You should post a diagram.

juvi-kyle

I have the perfect bike...

isotopesope

something like this:


"is that a baguette in your pants, or are you jizt happy to see me?"

br995

That seat is definitely going up his rear.

Serendipper 

It's a cantilever fork, handmade by Kemper .

dutret

so is the part you hold equivalent in hieght/orientation to drops, hoods, flat bars, mustache? The whole thing just seems either heavy, flexy as **** or both. Whimsical maybe.

Serendipper 

Flexy? Hell no. You are the smart one, you know how forces are more evenly distributed along triangulated vectors such as on a suspension bridge. Heavy? The whole frame weighs about 4 pounds. The bike should be about 14 pounds, maybe 12 brakeless.

Whimsical? Absolutely. But practical. The design came from the designer's solution to where to put your feet when you "coast" on a fixed gear. Voila--the handlebars double as a footrest. Not that I will use them that way. I find them extremely elegant.

For more on the theory, read the works of Ghyka. You may learn something you don't already know.



The idea of math, science, art, and motion coming together between my legs is exciting, to say the least.

Serendipper 

Here is another teaser pic of the bar/fork stemless setup.

brunning

that's what i got and i recommend coast's work highly.

i'd get a custom steel frame and fork and build it with solid stuff like:

nitto bars and stem
sugino 75 track cranks
phil hubs and velocity fusion rims
thompson post
selle flite saddle

sr20det

get some beast frame that looks like this: