I’m in San Diego right now and I found a reasonbly priced fixed gear bike ($279) I’d like to pick up and ship home. The bike is steel and it’s listed weight is 33 lbs. Is that too heavy for this type of bike. I know very little about them.
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Is it a fixed mtb? too heavy for track.
KW
I would say neither. It’s just an urban bike. Hipster I guess. Just want it for tooling around with wife while she’s on her hybrid and for running to store and such.
Linky: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/bid/3060352737.html
That is definitely on the heavier side. They tend to be heavy since they are usually chromoly, but not that heavy!
I’m in San Diego right now and I found a reasonbly priced fixed gear bike ($279) I’d like to pick up and ship home. The bike is steel and it’s listed weight is 33 lbs. Is that too heavy for this type of bike. I know very little about them.
Is that its shipping weight or the bike weight? If that’s the bike weight…it must be made of steel plumbing pipe, because that’s ridiculously heavy for a fixed gear. Even a steel-frame fixie should be well under 20 lbs, easy.
My steel road bike with downtube shifters, derailleurs, cassette, brakes, cables, boat anchor seat and seatpost weighs 23 lb. And that’s without ultralight tubing. There’s no way that weighs over 21 lb. Still, that’s a very generic fixie.
mine is about 17 pounds! its an old steel olmo that is amazing.
Mine is 21 lbs, size 61. It’s an alloy frame and was pretty expensive ($600) but I can’t imagine riding up any kind of hill on a fixie that weighs 33 lbs!
Must be a schwinn varsity or the like. I have one of those and it’s about that heavy. Good training!
That is heavy. Any big town like sandiego should have a metric shit ton of fixies that are both lighter and cheaper on craigs list. Heck, shipping is going to double to cost of the bike. Just buy one where you live. Or make one, fixies should not be expensive or hard to find. So unless you live in podunck just buy closer to home.
I got a used pista once off of CL for $100. I bought it just for the wheels and resold the frame for $50. But I live in Portland, so there are two metric shit tonnes of fixies here.
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I am racing an Ironman on a fixie this Sunday. I will keep updates coming on my blog www.staggerforwardrejoicing.com
t
Truer words have never been written. Metric shit ton.
That bike is definitely made from very low-grade steel, the same stuff they’d make stove pipe out of. Weighs a ton and will also rust like crazy.
I’ve been riding fixed gears for over the decade.
And track. I’ve found that bikes made for track must stay on the track, but fixed gears shouldn’t be too heavy. But what ive found is that a fixed gear should be more about the material than anything else.
For me, it’s steel. And I’ve had prob 10 steel fixed gears. Weighing from 27 to 15.
The lighter is good, because it’s SO much easier to stop, and if you ride brakeless, then it should be pretty light.
That weight, for me, would be too heavy. And for the speeds I go dangerous. But I shouldn’t be going that fast anyway. On a fixed that is. 
This is what I currently ride. 16.5 pounds, steel and fun as hell.
http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j323/prelude97si/e644b072.jpg
That is heavy. Any big town like sandiego should have a metric shit ton of fixies that are both lighter and cheaper on craigs list. Heck, shipping is going to double to cost of the bike. Just buy one where you live. Or make one, fixies should not be expensive or hard to find. So unless you live in podunck just buy closer to home.
I got a used pista once off of CL for $100. I bought it just for the wheels and resold the frame for $50. But I live in Portland, so there are two metric shit tonnes of fixies here.
t
I am racing an Ironman on a fixie this Sunday. I will keep updates coming on my blog www.staggerforwardrejoicing.com
t
Agreed btw. Craig’s list for a fact. San Diego is a fixed gear market.
Good advice.
Damn. That is purdy.
I’m in hilly east TN and I recently got essentially the same deal. ~30 pounds, steel, flip-flop hub. It’s rideable, but I’m going to change the gearing. I think it came with a 46/16? On a FLAT road, I can only comfortably pedal about 75 rpm.
Since I only use it for commuting to work, I need a much easier gear to offset the hills and the weight. I don’t want to sweat when I ride 1 mile.