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Decided to do a proper home made single speed

Emptied the bike room, garage and smokkeled a

Track frame from my LBS for a steal..

Started with sanding and Matt spraying the frame

Added the stock seat post and stem

Will convert a set of std road bars into bull horns

But until then a set of Dixie bars will do..

I added a set of 198..something Simano calipers

I am playing around with the rear sprockets

I took the 7 speed cassette apart and i added

Spacer keeping 3 sprockets on for now ..

A 12 .. 17.. 23 .. Will decide later after busting my legs to chose a ratio...

Wheels are stock 1999 105 ..

I'm looking for a set of decent track hubs with a flip flop rear hub to build a decent set of deep dish wheels ....

 

Current cost is minimal as all bits bar the track frame were off previous builds ...

 

Tyres will follow tomorrow

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Here is my second SS project. Received my VERY green Momsen steel frame yesterday :wub:post-14677-0-75794700-1406893666_thumb.jpg

 

Ordered my carbon rigid fork today, it's has a 15mm Thru axle and its taperedpost-14677-0-00010700-1406893666_thumb.jpgpost-14677-0-97845900-1406893688_thumb.jpg

 

Going to use my old Cannondale Sun Ringle wheels. Had new VERY green decals made from a hubber for the wheels and going to replace the front lefty hub with a black Rapide hub post-14677-0-53781500-1406893689_thumb.jpg

 

The crank is going to be XT 3×10 converted to a 32T single bladepost-14677-0-26989100-1406893690_thumb.jpg

 

For the cockpit I only currently have this stem post-14677-0-33252300-1406893687_thumb.jpg

Still have not made up my mind on the bar, seatpost and saddle. Most probably going to be black

 

The brakes I'm using an old set of SLX brakes. post-14677-0-87094900-1406894386_thumb.jpg

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So after some tinkering and replacing some goodies on my SS its finally where it was always intended to be... Full rigid single speed.... One last thing I would like to do still is to split the rear stay and go belt drive but that will be a project for a later stage when I have time and money for the conversion... What I might do in the meantime is paint it.... getting bit tired of the full carbon look ... never thought id say that :eek: :whistling:

 

 

Any more details on this? Looks great!!,

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http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o484/GucciKit/32c1afb6024d1c652efc3e94005aee8a_zps2252d0c9.jpg

 

It's on the road. Next to do all the changes, smaller rear cog, paint and possibly new stem, internal cabling, new seat and post - it never ends!!!!

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Here is my second SS project. Received my VERY green Momsen steel frame yesterday :wub:post-14677-0-75794700-1406893666_thumb.jpg

 

Ordered my carbon rigid fork today, it's has a 15mm Thru axle and its taperedpost-14677-0-00010700-1406893666_thumb.jpgpost-14677-0-97845900-1406893688_thumb.jpg

 

Going to use my old Cannondale Sun Ringle wheels. Had new VERY green decals made from a hubber for the wheels and going to replace the front lefty hub with a black Rapide hub post-14677-0-53781500-1406893689_thumb.jpg

 

The crank is going to be XT 3×10 converted to a 32T single bladepost-14677-0-26989100-1406893690_thumb.jpg

 

For the cockpit I only currently have this stem post-14677-0-33252300-1406893687_thumb.jpg

Still have not made up my mind on the bar, seatpost and saddle. Most probably going to be black

 

The brakes I'm using an old set of SLX brakes. post-14677-0-87094900-1406894386_thumb.jpg

 

Isn't that frame for a straight fork?

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Anybody know of shops in Pretoria/Centurion selling SS parts. I'm looking for an 18t cog by Tuesday, so online shopping won't work and I would prefer not to have to drive through to Joburg.

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Anybody know of shops in Pretoria/Centurion selling SS parts. I'm looking for an 18t cog by Tuesday, so online shopping won't work and I would prefer not to have to drive through to Joburg.

for 90 bucks rapide.co.za will deliver next day. I was shocked when it arrived and I'm in cape town.

do it. just consider it petrol money

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