A while back I posted a WTB for a 58cm Quickbeam. I finally found a frameset/wheelset on a trade. It had all been ridden pretty hard as a commuter, and that pre-installed beausage kind of liberated me from some of the usual perfectionist tendencies that I have with my builds.
A thread over on iBob showed off a ~$3000 Pro's Closet listing of a Vanilla branded "single speed tourer", and one of the responders suggested that we should have a build-off: build the nicest single speed tourer you can for the minimum amount of money. In response to that challenge I threw together a one-day build using entirely stuff laying around in my parts collection. Particularly iconoclastic details include a gold anodized Nitto Pearl 11 stem, a heavily modified brakeset, and handlebar tape entirely fashioned from remnants. Anyway, if you want to have a look, I've got a flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/albums/72177720300383026 It's actually a 6-speed single speed. In the album, there are 35/38 chainrings, a 20/22 Dos/ENO freewheel on one side and a 17T fixed cog on the other. I did some calculations targeted at utilizing the generously long Quickbeam dropouts, and decided I can get away with 40/34 chainrings, which I also had on-hand on the chainring board. I have a 16/18 freewheel on the way, and then I'll convert it to an 8-speed singlespeed, with gears ranging from 43 to 69 inches. There's another order in the works to make this 'Beam even weirder, but that project is a few weeks out. We'll see if this build concept makes its way onto a Roaduno. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b9df4e02-abb9-4e8f-8560-497af79b9954n%40googlegroups.com.
