Single Speed Conversion - Vintage Road Bike
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2020
- Single Speed / Fixie Conversion of an old Road Bike. Old Vincolo, spent under $50 building it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Parts:
Chain: wiggle.akum7z.net/yVQ7v
Single Speed Kit: wiggle.akum7z.net/P5NPX
Other Parts: wiggle.akum7z.net/249Ag
Single Speed Vincolo $20
Single speed kit $15
Chain $10
Grips $5
+ some old parts from the garage
Prices are $NZD
More coming soon..
Waveywheelies - Спорт
This was exactly the conversion video I was looking for. No expensive bs, and showing every step that's involved. Thanks so much, I am really looking forward to my conversion!
Awesome! Glad it helped you out!
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Do you have any issues using the QR on the back with this conversion, like anxle slipping
Apart from the video being very instructive and inspiring a nice side effect is that after 10 mins of this I feel totally Zen'ed out. Very relaxing video. :)
agreed!
Likewise!
Finally! It’s hard to find a video on a conversion of a vintage road bike to fixed gear. This one is perfect! Got me wanting to take on the project again on mine.
Wavey Wheelies thank you. I was trying to finish my Peugeot tourmalet I got restored and didn’t want to go with gears to show the beautiful bike.
Keep up the amazing videos!
Thanks for this one ... I wanted to work on my super old Raleigh but didn’t know where to start. Straight to the point and great details ..👏🏿👏🏿
Have been considering a major overhaul of my full sus, 90's MTB to single speed. Thinking of it as a comfy cruiser. Have learned more from this channel than anywhere else and think I might have the confidence to go for it.
Added bonus is that there is nowhere better to mentally unwind. Top stuff 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I did my old college 10-speed to single-speed conversion some time ago and enjoyed the project so much I may well find another cheap vintage Schwinn, etc. to do it again even though I don't have room or need of another. This video just further encouraged me. :)
I just did all that to a spare bike. It’s so satisfying cleaning up the bearings and getting things back together. You just feel clean and renewed inside in a weird way haha!
Great vid, bro. Maybe I’ll have to do a vid on our bike conversions sometime.
Nice one bro, yeah I feel that. That’s the joy I get out of fixing up old things or even just making them slightly better. Thanks man!
Great video! I absolutely love restoration/fixing videos.
One of the cleanest conversion videos I have seen. I finally got around to stripping down my Marin Stinson. I want to convert it to single speed from 7. And I'm debating on going with disc brakes. And i'm looking to go with a Big BMX look. Because this bike will be for getting back in shape I like how your build wasn't that expensive.
Thanks man, appreciate that! Sounds like a rad project, good luck with it 🤙
Great vid- I just picked up something extremely similar and it’s in the stand. Thanks
super kool man, loved the whole video. also helped me out on seeing what tools i need for some bike maintenance/teardown for kleaning. keep rockin!
Thanks man! Awesome to hear it helped you out👌
Short but sweet, have spent forever trying to find these conversion kits. Puch conversion very soon, cheers !
unreal! love the video! best video ive seen in a while, making my own now...
Looks wicked, I’m a sucker for drop bars though
I just recently finished a conversion project. I didn't bother to replace the rear casset. Astheticly it doesn't look great but it does the job. It's working pretty well. Great build man.
Thanks man! Awesome to hear! Yep I've done that a few times, works fine but as you say, doesn't look great and gives you less ability to adjust chain line.
Thanks! I’ve been thinking converting my wife’s 1975 Raleigh to single speed. Your video answered my questions.
Awesome to hear! Glad it was helpful, good luck with the project✌️
Great video, and great job. Thanks dude, keep posting.
best vid showing how to get it done! NO BS, thanks for sharing 👊
So relaxing to watch, thank you
I love bringing an old dead bike back to life. I'm currently overhauling a Raleigh 20inch folder. Gonna be my first sturmey archer overhaul
Awesome, sounds like a good challenge. Always a lot of joy in getting an old bike rolling again
@@waveywheelies recently overhauled my wife's granpas bike. A rollfast, cruiser style coaster brake bike. With a old style skip tooth chain and cogs. What a nice riding bike, super smooth
I am planning to turn an old Giant road bike into a fixie. This video really helps me out, thanks a lot!
Awesome thanks! glad it helped
A lot of your comments are applicable to software designers interacting with clients. At least from my experience. Clerks is a great movie. 😂 Great video.
I did the same thing,on my 26 years old road bike! 8.5kg atm,i need to change the rear wheel, it's pretty heavy! Rides soo much better,then with all the gears on! 😊
Right now im really really into it on making this kind of build
Legend has it that once the video ended the bicycle came to life and thanked this guy for such a brilliant restoring.
Your vids are the bomb dude. This helped me alot
I really needed to find a video that just says what you explain at minute 8:21. Thank you!
How does this not have more views?
profoundly chill... and informative.
I needed this today...
Ah , the old Garry Buys Vincolo. Ex Pedal pushers in Palmy, now bike barn. Had one of those in the late 80s and recently acquired a mint one from a friend. Great old bikes.
Hah that’s awesome, I’ve only really just discovered them. Do you happen to know where I could find some history on them?
@@waveywheelies yeah, get a hold of Garry Buys at The bike barn Palmerston North. Thats his brainchild.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.kiwireviews.nz/review/774-pedal-pushers&ved=2ahUKEwjrqJ3OssHpAhX-wzgGHSbGB9sQFjAKegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw01d7yTqveOhCAoWoGixfop&cshid=1589941942478
No bs, calm music, straight forward subscribed
Great video, simple and vary informative. Time to try do it my self.
Thanks and good luck!
Very cool vid! Thanks for sharing the process. 🎉
Thankyou!
Job jobbed. Nice work. 👍🏼
Awww man really liked the old pedals.
inqstructive; thank for linking the single speed converter kit
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Great Video - Cool Bike - Nice work
Thank you! and thanks for watching✌️
Awesome single speed build video
Thanks man!
Great video thanks for sharing.
what a chill video
What a great bike!
Wow pretty good job. You made it look easy. Mate.
Cheers bro!
These builds are so sweet. Make it look so simple, im currently stripping down an old frame and rebuilding fixie, but everything is a different size, plus strippin paint is taking forever! Quality stuff man love the videos.
Thanks man! Yeah some older frames will have different sized stuff, it can be a pain if you don’t have the right parts. Sounds like a sweet build though, you painting it yourself?
@@waveywheelies All part of the fun, its an old British Falcon, once i started to strip the paint i realised its a big job but yeah wanting to paint it myself and build it up fixed.
Awesome stuff, sounds like a fun build!
Great video
Looks Sweet!!
Good vid
Very helpful. Thanks
Great informative video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching :)
great, if you were to leave the 52 tooth chainring and add a 19 on the back that would be the ideal for me
Nice build and enjoyed the background music
Clean look!
simple and clean🙏
It was soo relaxing and smooth video. If it possible, i would gladly pick up all those leftover component in exchange of few bucks 😃
Thank you! I have a bunch of second hand bits and pieces, anything in particular you are after?
@@waveywheelies i'm looking for front and rear derailleur and also that oval chainring for my old bike 😃
awesome vids and hello from devo!
Luke B thanks! 🤙
fantastic video
Thanks, I Appreciate it!
Great and cool video, hugs from Brasil
Thanks man!
A minha é semelhante, até o grupo da relação é igual, mas a que tenho e de blocagem, mas consegui deixá-la single. É excelente a bike, muito sastifeito, até melhor que as outras que tenho kkk
really great...
Looks good
Rad Build and Video, a little wide bars for such a fast bike though👍
Thanks man!
I love fixies
This was not a fixie.
Very cool bike to convert to single speed! Nice build! I just finished one similar. I eliminated my drop bars too.
Thank you! and nice!
This is awesome. What a cool video I have 2 old Schwinn bikes. A girl and boy bike, think they are varsity bikes. Grandpa gave them to me, and I want to convert one to a a single speed. First time attempting it. What do I look for to start?
Nice one. DId it have 27" or 700C wheels? Also narrow or wide chain? thanks.
Thanks! It had 700c wheels on it and a 6/7s chain
I love your work as always. Did you just use the same small chain ring?
hey man, loved the video, nice build and very educative ! I gonna try to build a fixie from an old bike, as you look very into bikes i'm sure you can tell me if i need a new back wheel or if i can juste remove and replace the freewheel ! thanks
Thanks!! Flick me a message on Instagram if you need any help👍
This is a beaut fosho 😮💨👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Dude this was so well done. Can you specify about the front chainring as far as size? And maybe where to pick one up.
Thanks man! What info do you want to know about it?
I see you guys kept the ‘shin fuckers’ on though 😂
Gonna build One 😎
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20 bucks??? That's a WIN!
thank you so much
I wish I knew someone like you to trust to build me a solid nice single speed:
:(
Theres lots of people about! try your local bike groups or shops?
less is more!
thank you lovely
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I do enjoy a bike getting a new lease of life instead of going to landfill....Lovely old Italian steed as well:)
Awesome video, music and editing made it extremely relaxing to watch.
About the grease you put into headset racers, I use to use the blue grease. What do you think about it?
Thanks bro! What grease is it? There’s loads of different greases out there in all sorts of colours
@@waveywheelies true... The one I use is a high temp grease, up to 180celcius and is more water resistant than the nautic white one.
hey, love the video, odd question - what shorts are you wearing in this? love the fit
nice video and love the music...what the good size of the front and rear corona to reach a good speed
Thank you! There’s a lot of different gear ratios depending on the terrain your riding. 46-16 medium gear and is a pretty common city ratio
Lovely video. Really helpful. What is the white goop stuff you’re using?
Thanks bro, appreciate it! It’s just standard bike grease, Finish Line Premium Grease 🤙
I've run my single speed with a 5 gear cassete on the back wheel with the chain being in the middle gear, so basically you don't even need to get a single speed kit to do this, just make sure that your chain is properly tensioned otherwise it could bounce on uneven terrain and move itself onto another gear.
Yeah that can be done. I’ve done it before but there’s a few things you are restricted to, and that’s only being able to use the cog that lines up with the chainring (without sacrificing your chainline). Sometimes it’s fine but it’s not always the best gearing so you would have to change your chainring if you wanted a specific gear. And the other one is that you can’t use a single speed chain on a cassette, because the chain is too wide and rubs on the other cogs. So with one cost (the single speed kit) it gives you the ability to have a good chain line, run a single speed cog, and choose your cog size (gearing). But yeah, that’s why bike are so rad, there’s so many different ways to do stuff and whatever works best for people is always different 👍
The chain movement is caused by improper chain line, not a slack chain.
@@bob-ny6kn It's part of the problem, but trust me, keeping that chain under tension will prevent it from moving anywhere it shoudn't
Amazing video and music to go with it. Can you do that to any vintage steel frame? I have 1974 Peugeot AOU 8 frame i believe.
Thanks for the kind words! You can do it to a lot of them but not all unfortunately. Unfamiliar with that model sorry
Nice build. What's your gearing on this? 40T/16T? What would you recommend for regular city commuting? Lov the vids
Thanks mate! its 42/16. It depends on the terrain/hills you'll be riding on really. I usually ride 46/16 on my fixed gear and that's a nice middle ground, I've got a fair few hills in my commute
I love the builds. But y straight handlebars so often though? I have pursuit bars on my bike n cant go back to straight.
do I need the single speed conversion kit? Is there any way to do it without one / make my bike a fixie? Thanks for all the help!
I like it
hey bro, great vid, could you please send me the link of the kit you used for the back tire. Greeting from Venezuela!
Hey bro, link is in the description or use this one wiggle.akum7z.net/P5NPX
Amazing Conversion. I Think drop bars would look fantastic on this build, just saying
Thanks man! Yeah I agree
@@waveywheelies I agree. After years of flat bars, I prefer drops or horns for hand and wrist fatigue.
Thank you for the great video! If you have a time, can you summarize the whole tool you used in the video?
Thanks man, yeah I will soon
waveywheelies Cool! Have a great weekend!
where do you find a bike for $20.00? fantastic video, this helped me so much. first YT video ive ever downloaded.
I want that frame looks like jay jos from windbreaker
Is your rear cog 3/32? Does your drivetrain make unwanted noise? Cool build btw!
This instrumental is fire! Not to knock your vid but I’ve been driving around just lost in its vibe
@jon dough vibes are vibes, fam
Im planning to convert the most awfully made bike to a single speed, its an apollo tuck folding bike (google that one) ive never converting or done much work on bikes before but i think this video will help a lot
Good luck bro 🤙
Nice thanks
No worries!
Does anyone know if this build would have been possible if instead of replacing the entire chain ring he just took off the smaller one from the beginning and kept the larger original one and used that for the build?
Thanks for the tips!
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No worries! Thanks for the support✌️
Great video! I have a single speed (Mercier Kilo TT) with an 18 tooth single speed freewheel (Shimano SF-MX30) and currently need new cranks. Is it possible to use a pair of vintage road bike cranks by removing one of the 2 chainrings like you did in this video? Or will that not work without spacers like in this video?
Yep it’s possible, you will just need to make sure you get the correct length bottom bracket to ensure the chainline is straight
Rad. Thanks for the reply. Any advice on how to keep a correct chain line with a setup like that?
There’s a way to take some measurements to figure it out but you’ll have to google it. Or just trial and error with different bb’s if you can? Bike shop might be able to help
Hey where did u buy the back cog from just I accidently bought a screw on one and now I need to buy a new hub but that would make it alot easier
Surprised you didn't give the frame a paint touch up? Lot of exposed metal on the chain stays.