I have a fixed gear from state that cost a bit over $500 3 years ago.
It’s my beer and dinner fetching machine. I ride it everyday (the longway) to my local store for ingredients for dinner
3 years and 3000 miles later
I have had to replace 2 chains, 3 rear hubs (my own mistakes… check your lockring or blow up a hub), saddle, grips, cog, lockring, Pedals (went from flats to cages and am now on SPD), replaced original brakes with Shimano brakes and have gone through A LOT of tires.
I think I am in it at like $1500… Tools I don’t want to calculate but building and truing wheels is a very relaxing thing to do
Here’s a picture of it loaded up. I think that I was getting ready for a party
Damn that’s a lot of repairs. Maybe my standards are just low, the old bike I had (3x7 gears) I rode for probably somewhere around half the distance you did, and never changed anything (apart from tires and brake pads), and the bike itself was my old dad’s bike that’s more than 25 years old by now. The 7th gear did start skipping pretty hard by the end tho.
Some things I broke as I am learning to fix bikes
(Hubs mainly… when a cog comes off unexpectedly it usually takes the threads with it)
Others just did wear out that fast… last chain only gave me around 1,000 mi but I rode in a lot of rain / mud and used an awful chain lube. (It was well over 1% out of spec and all winter I had a knocking in my pedal that I just couldn’t figure out)
I have a fixed gear from state that cost a bit over $500 3 years ago.
It’s my beer and dinner fetching machine. I ride it everyday (the longway) to my local store for ingredients for dinner
3 years and 3000 miles later
I have had to replace 2 chains, 3 rear hubs (my own mistakes… check your lockring or blow up a hub), saddle, grips, cog, lockring, Pedals (went from flats to cages and am now on SPD), replaced original brakes with Shimano brakes and have gone through A LOT of tires.
I think I am in it at like $1500… Tools I don’t want to calculate but building and truing wheels is a very relaxing thing to do
Here’s a picture of it loaded up. I think that I was getting ready for a party
Its pretty anti-fixie
Damn that’s a lot of repairs. Maybe my standards are just low, the old bike I had (3x7 gears) I rode for probably somewhere around half the distance you did, and never changed anything (apart from tires and brake pads), and the bike itself was my old dad’s bike that’s more than 25 years old by now. The 7th gear did start skipping pretty hard by the end tho.
Some of the things I replaced for fun
Some things I broke as I am learning to fix bikes (Hubs mainly… when a cog comes off unexpectedly it usually takes the threads with it)
Others just did wear out that fast… last chain only gave me around 1,000 mi but I rode in a lot of rain / mud and used an awful chain lube. (It was well over 1% out of spec and all winter I had a knocking in my pedal that I just couldn’t figure out)