my pimped ride

July 30th, 2006
cata-wha?

Wheee!

Here is a snap of my new bike. Well, it’s actually a fairly old bike - an early 80’s Faggin road bike. I was attracted to its retro qualities, and have been wanting a bike project for sometime now. So, I had it shipped out from Lincoln and was planning to use it as a fixer-upper project so that I could learn more about bikes. I quickly realized that ir would probably take 2 years for me to get the time and energy to fix it up myself, so I dropped it off at American Cyclery, where they told me, unless it had major sentimental value, the best approach would be to make it into a single-speed/fixed conersion.

I have been riding it as a single speed for two weeks, and it’s been a blast. I may flip the wheel and try it fixe-style sometime, but for now, this is doing the trick.

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