Bill, I love the design constraints (one-day build, single-speed touring, AND low cost). About 4 years ago, motivated by my Quickbeam's setup of "One Speed, One Cog, One God" (exactly, Patrick :) -- but needing significantly more luggage capacity than a Quickbeam for living car-free -- I did a VO Campeur single-speed conversion via a Surly Ultra New Singlespeed MTB Rear Hub and a Paul chain tensioner. The Riv/Nitto Big Back Rack, naturally. Porteur front rack. Albatross bars. As you can see...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/millhiser/28828007907/in/album-72157668716780897/ Darn thing ended up being $1200 more than my Quickbeam, and it took me weeks to build it, so I failed 2 of 3 of your constraints. But I love the simplicity of singlespeed touring. :) Cheers, Will On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 6:12:08 PM UTC-4 Andrew Turner wrote: > I had a chromed Soma Rush with a similar gear setup (two chainrings up > front and two cogs on a road wheelset). That was a wickedly fun bike to > mess around on and my first steps into non-conventional builds. Shoulda > kept it but at least it paid for our first couch. > On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 2:46:51 PM UTC-5 Minh wrote: > >> hey bill looks great, and the pre-scratch & dent frames can be a little >> liberating, but even with the parts bin build, a quickbeam is always gonna >> look great! >> >> On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 2:14:07 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> That's an interesting project. The Puritan in me insists on "One Ring >>> One Cog One God" (and no g-d freewheel) as an old t-shirt from the fixie >>> fad era proclaimed, but I also have worked up devious ways to have my >>> single-fixed gear cake and multiple gear options to eat too. >>> >>> As to the contest, best ss touring/commuter/all rounder/beater ride for >>> the dollar, I have to recall one that got away, that early '90s rigid >>> top-end Diamond Back Axis Team (beautifully tapered, skinny straight leg >>> fork; no one can tell me that straight forks can't be beautiful) that I >>> converted with ENO hub to a 64" fixed gear all rounder with 60 mm Big >>> Apples. Perfectly neutral handling, high bb allowing you to pedal the 170 >>> mm cranks around corners, tires that rolled acceptably on pavement, floated >>> over sand, and shrugged off goatheads even though this was 10 years before >>> good sealants. All this was achieved largely for the cost of the ENO hub, >>> as my brother gave me a family deal on the frameset and I had the other >>> bits lying around; but it has been too long for me to recall a total. >>> >>> I think this project beat out even that other low-cost fixed/ss project >>> using an early-gen Raleigh Technium sports tourer. >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:41 PM Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> A while back I posted a WTB for a 58cm Quickbeam. I finally found a >>>> frameset/wheelset on a trade. It had all been ridden pretty hard as a >>>> commuter, and that pre-installed beausage kind of liberated me from some >>>> of >>>> the usual perfectionist tendencies that I have with my builds. >>>> >>>> A thread over on iBob showed off a ~$3000 Pro's Closet listing of a >>>> Vanilla branded "single speed tourer", and one of the responders suggested >>>> that we should have a build-off: build the nicest single speed tourer you >>>> can for the minimum amount of money. >>>> >>>> In response to that challenge I threw together a one-day build using >>>> entirely stuff laying around in my parts collection. Particularly >>>> iconoclastic details include a gold anodized Nitto Pearl 11 stem, a >>>> heavily >>>> modified brakeset, and handlebar tape entirely fashioned from remnants. >>>> Anyway, if you want to have a look, I've got a flickr album: >>>> >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/albums/72177720300383026 >>>> >>>> It's actually a 6-speed single speed. In the album, there are 35/38 >>>> chainrings, a 20/22 Dos/ENO freewheel on one side and a 17T fixed cog on >>>> the other. I did some calculations targeted at utilizing the generously >>>> long Quickbeam dropouts, and decided I can get away with 40/34 chainrings, >>>> which I also had on-hand on the chainring board. I have a 16/18 freewheel >>>> on the way, and then I'll convert it to an 8-speed singlespeed, with gears >>>> ranging from 43 to 69 inches. >>>> >>>> There's another order in the works to make this 'Beam even weirder, but >>>> that project is a few weeks out. We'll see if this build concept makes >>>> its >>>> way onto a Roaduno. >>>> >>>> Bill Lindsay >>>> El Cerrito, CA >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b9df4e02-abb9-4e8f-8560-497af79b9954n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b9df4e02-abb9-4e8f-8560-497af79b9954n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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