How easy is it to change a fixed wheel racer to a single speed freewheel? ?
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- auejim
I am thinking of buying a Bianchi Pista Steel 2009 Road Bike but do not want a fixed wheel? can i change this easily?
- d_rek0
I think sir, that you have stumbled upon the wrong forum.
- kkills0
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard.
- auejim0
designers love bikes ? where have you been
- auejim0
not silly when i see people fall over their handlbars on a daily basis
- anxiousarms0
skateboards >>> bikes
- kkills0
maybe they should learn how to ride ;)
- horton0
big LOLz from the above YH bike thread:
- MSTRPLN0
Swap out the fixed cog for a free-wheel and run a rear brake.
- armsbottomer0
i think the pista's rear hub is fixed/fixed. that would mean that you'd need to get a fixed/free flipflop hub to switch it from fixie to freewheel. then its just a matter of flipping the rear wheel, putting back in place, and your set. keep in mind that there isn't a drilled hole in the back for rear brake though, it's intended to be ridden as fixie.
- auejim0
thanks! i didnt expect a serious answer
- Hoax0
can I ask why you'd go to the bother of changing a fixed wheel bike when you can just buy a free straight off the bat?
- DrBombay0
get some brakes hipsters!
- auejim0
cause i like that bike, is there a single speed version?
- defstro0
Why a Pista? You could spend a buck fifty more and get a Lemond Fillmore. It has a flip flop hub so if you ever did decide to ride fixed it would be a snap.
- doctor0
Good call. All the fashion victims are lining up at the orthopaedics with knee problems, from riding fixies.
- Hoax0
Haha ^ I was thinking that, I remember seeing one of those Vicemag heroin chic cool photographers had done a series on these dirty hipsters who hold jousting events and shit on bikes like that riding over dirty mattresses and stuff, presumably before shooting up and having sex on them. Bikes and all :-d
- billl0
what armsbottomer said - get a flipflop hub and mount a bmx freewheel
