Not man enough for a fixie, but I shook out the SS today
My goal was to have a bike I could ride anywhere and not have to care much about, so I took everything but the middle chainring off an old Trek tourer (620, from the mid-'80s I think) and spun on a spacer and BMX freewheel. It had semi-horizontal dropouts, which gave me just enough adjustment to get the chain tension right, and I put on some Zefal fenders I bought for my Atlantis but never mounted. Rode it for the first time in four or five months this weekend, just rambling around Yosemite Valley. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.
My goal was to have a bike I could ride anywhere and not have to care much about, so I took everything but the middle chainring off an old Trek tourer (620, from the mid-'80s I think) and spun on a spacer and BMX freewheel. It had semi-horizontal dropouts, which gave me just enough adjustment to get the chain tension right, and I put on some Zefal fenders I bought for my Atlantis but never mounted. Rode it for the first time in four or five months this weekend, just rambling around Yosemite Valley. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.
