Tag: fixed gear

  • 90s MTB to Singlespeed Conversion

    90s MTB to Singlespeed Conversion

    Sometime around 1995 or 1996, I bought a Giant ATX 850 mountain bike. This was a rigid bike – not even any front suspension. It had an aluminium frame and 3 x 7 speed chainset. That bike went a lot of places with me. In late 1996, I rode it in the Moroccan Atlas mountains.…

  • A Single Speed Conversion

    You know how sometimes you’re idly looking for something on eBay, and you don’t find it. So you create a saved search for it on the off-chance that it comes up the future. Then you sit back and forget about it. Until… …One day an email drops into your inbox. The thing you were looking…