Bring your multi-speed bike to the Bike Oven and convert it to a Single Speed, or do a double-conversion – mountain to Single Speed Road. Use our workshop facilites, tools, and expertise to build the bike of your dreams. Or buy one of the used bikes we have on hand for your conversion project. Shop time is a $5.00 per hour (donation) plus parts. We have new BMX freewheels, tyres, tubes, and cables. We have used wheels, handlebars, stems, and brakes.
Build a Single Speed from your road bike, mountain bike, or hybrid bike.
This example was built at the Bike Oven from a 1990′s steel rigid fork Schwinn Mirada mountain bike. The original wheels were changed to a pair of chromed steel 26 x 1 3/8 wheels with street tyres. But you can select 27 inch or 700c wheels.
The original steel crank was swapped out for an alloy crank with an alloy 53 tooth chain ring. Cantilever brakes were removed and Shimano center-pull caliper brakes installed. The steel mountain bike handlebar and stem were removed in favor of the alloy road stem and drop bar as shown. The heavy 6 speed freewheel was replaced with a chrome 17 tooth BMX single speed.
Bike Oven is open to the general public Tuesday and Thursday from 7:00pm until 10:00pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. No appointment necessary, just stop by. 3706 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Visit us online at http://bikeoven.com/ or call 323-223-8020.
Wow Harv…. that’s a beauty… can it be seen at the Oven?
Get ready Harv! Here I come with my Schwinn World Sport!!
Steve, the red Schwinn SS project is not quite ready for display at the Oven yet. I am still experimenting with the drive train – gearing and chain line. The 53T-17T seems a bit high, so I am trying 42-17.
Alice – I am ready for you any time.
I sense a subtle under current of gender-based favoritism.
Why would a person want to DECREASE the capabilities of his machine?
With things like this I think your question, BAW, is better left unanswered.
Why did men stop wearing hats?
Why are ugly clothes from the 1980′s so fashionable right now?
Give it a year to blow over, and something else will pop up.
BAW said:
>Why would a person want to DECREASE the capabilities of >his machine?
Because increased capabilities come at a price. The price might be added weight, added maintenance and expense, appearance, noise, etc. This is called reaching the point of diminishing returns. Unless you specifically need a feature which gives added capability, the minimalist bicycle rider will be better off without it. There is an engineering axiom which states that a simple design is an elegant design. So we have fixed gear bikes, which are the ultimate in simplicity (the unicycle being the one exception), and the single-speed bike which is almost as austere as the fixie, but viable for the more timid rider.
Besides, the single-speed road bike is all the rage right now.
my bike just got stolen and im so mad
Harv is just expressing his cronyism…preference for crones…;o)
Sorry about your bike, Herberth