Build a Single Speed Bike - Make: Video Podcast
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Uploaded by makemagazine on Jun 15, 2007
Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back.
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@greattechreviews Its a freewheel....not gonna skid
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I heard the word hipster and communal... But you were missing co-op and local. Maybe next time...
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We loved this video but it didn't have enough detail, so we made a 12 part series on how to convert your 10 speed bike to single speed.
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@greattechreviews hes not making a fixed smart.
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Man I really want to build one of these. Too bad I live in the city of seven hills, Lynchburg....blaaaah.
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16 tooth cog has the worst possible skid patch. I suggest a 17 tooth cog
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fackkkkk never throw anything away! I threw out my old chain and my innertubes! good idea
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Hindsight=20/20: Use a hack-saw instead of pipe cutters on your bars. These guys make the pipe cutter look easy, but it isn't...especially since the curved part of a down bar can have flat spots. I used pipe cutters on my steel bars and they totally smashed in the edge on the first cut. Took forever to bend the edge back out so I can fit my bar ends back in (still isn't perfect).
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Where's the PDF?
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Where's the PDF?
benjamenee136 9 months ago 29
that video was actually dope, you guys know your shit. but you forgot the crucial last step.. name your bike "Charlie Sheen" because it has one speed, one gear.. Go!
fergferguson 10 months ago 28