# Youthful indiscretions: Post your track bike/sw8 fixie **URL:** \ **Category:** Bikes\ **Created:** [November 14, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195 "2018-11-14T19:32:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![russ](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/russ/32/127_2.png) [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/41 "2018-11-15T17:39:50Z")
lol here’s my kilo tt pictured with 700x30 Kenda Kwick “knobbies” for winter use 2010 - 2013? college commuter it was too small saddle was a legit ass hatchet did a 350 mile weeklong tour on it once gumwalls before they were cool I wore my click clack shoes everywhere those wheels were such shit I broke spokes all the time sold it to a friend kinda want another one ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/4/43f87ab07b7226363d373ee3c2d68b8b5a5167bc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![russ](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/russ/32/127_2.png) [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/42 "2018-11-15T17:55:41Z")
goddammit I had a lot of good memories with that bike ---
**Author:** ![joyofvaping](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/joyofvaping/32/37814_2.png) [@joyofvaping](https://tarck.cc/u/joyofvaping)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/43 "2018-11-15T18:00:31Z")
I got my first fixie ™ post-peak since I could only afford a shitty old ten speed during college. It was this silly fgfs frame. I got it complete for like $240 and then rode it home brklzz, in the snow, over the Williamsburg bridge (and felt like I was gonna die) ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/b/b321baf8eb94d2b2747d45c25480619ec78a3d0a.jpeg) And a couple years down the line I put a carradice on it for commuting: ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/7/777b9e54925e9c96a79ea12551a13931c22a49ec.jpeg) I then kludged a BMX rear brake on and used it for cyclocross before buying jim’s pompino (which I’m includedinf since I rode it fixed for commuting) ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/0/004d7b888d51ec5713d1825ffd20cf767b5ef027.jpeg) And then the fgfs got a dynamo and became a winter bike that could barspin. ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/1/1f1ed3b9fcc0186f05d01c8995fba30cec477c33.jpeg) And at some point in here I built up the gitane track from my first post in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![goose\_value\_69](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/goose_value_69/32/169983_2.png) [@goose\_value\_69](https://tarck.cc/u/goose_value_69)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/44 "2018-11-15T18:17:47Z")
![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/4/4bf86caa4670e8ac69b22695ecba7df771daa318.jpeg) ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/7/73d6f303f0d3ad6e08ea9b7fed612a75ff8e2aef.jpeg) The purple one was my very first self bought bike. It’s a Volume Cutter trick track and an enormous turd. Super heavy with a monster chromed steel fork. Sweet white Deep V in the rear with a cheapo Shimano road wheel up front. Only photo I can find. I did like the purple though and got lots of comments. Second is my Fuji Track Pro that I later paint stripped and put Deda track bars, until they hurt my hands so badly I sold the whole thing. I think the pedal room guy bought it from me. He painted half of it gold, and tried to flip it on Craigslist if I recall. I thought I was cool for the DA cranks but the splines were basically toast. ---
**Author:** ![plop](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/plop/32/10209_2.png) [@plop](https://tarck.cc/u/plop)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/45 "2018-11-15T18:23:03Z")
My second sweet fixie conversion. I don’t remember what the frame was other than it was too small for me. ![4499013516_afece1341f_b](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/8/83363c345af42148c63aa43afee1d23f4479d287.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![cheese](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/cheese/32/182_2.png) [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/46 "2018-11-15T18:36:19Z")
oh I actually found some old ones while fixing Flickr. ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/d/de228c2bbe29ceb0ea35f2c06d24cf70d80ce1b6.jpeg "final build shot") This was the conversion that I started with, that rear wheel was janky but the rest of the bike was pretty solid. Early fizik mtb saddle. ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/2/2a491bdf52d1b1cf88fee99373ebe68d543388d8.jpeg "for ezra, pt. 1") here’s the IRO GB frame which got the deep drop dedas and CXP wheelset ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/0/069ba9f40116bc320413d2e6ffc85b27938260f0.jpeg "untitled") I built this felt after selling my repainted fuji track pro and it spent a brief interval with tiny flat bars before getting paint and a rebuild with track drops: ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/4/41a317c666560f340d733c75e0a704b1eb7c46a4.jpeg "felt/full") I’d rebuilt the IRO as a SS rain bike with fenders but it always felt a little dead ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/0/024a25eca3220a139171c28c107e5ae03e41152d.jpeg "stratos") ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/e/ea7c4beb6fade1446bacd8be82c568e3f5ac41a8.jpeg "stratos") I got this Stratos thru Keirin Culture and it just always fit. It had that pie plate ring, Cinelli saddle, and Mavic bullhorns for a little while, but when I moved back to Richmond it got Jitensha Studio sweeps, an SLR, and 75s and that’s how it still is today: ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/6/646baa9631ffebe83d7119032bf4338c9696b1f7.jpeg "804 rides") ---
**Author:** ![anon71759125](https://static.tarck.cc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@anon71759125](https://tarck.cc/u/anon71759125)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/47 "2018-11-16T00:33:15Z")
This threads makes me want one of those MKE Bruisers lulz Geometry is really weird on it and I’m sure I’d hate it in a Small ![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/8/83e456a1776cd293215525a2c88fcef54ceb0b06.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![wickedwagon](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/wickedwagon/32/170051_2.png) [@wickedwagon](https://tarck.cc/u/wickedwagon)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/48 "2018-11-16T00:53:51Z")
Shit, I’m a cheap fixed wheel away from doing sweet snowy whip skids. Need to stop looking at this. ---
**Author:** ![Jacobell](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/jacobell/32/895_2.png) [@Jacobell](https://tarck.cc/u/Jacobell)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/49 "2018-11-16T01:05:30Z")
I sense so much nostalgia in all of these responses. Current bike since 2013 or so - now has real Nitto track drops, a nice stem and a celeste turbo. Rode it for the first time in 3 years yesterday. ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/2/23c4e8ef9753e51c88cc42ce705aadaea4525f00.jpeg) Wish I never sold this one, a Raleigh Super Course. Saw it at the library a few months ago and almost left a note to try to buy it back. ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/d/dfbfe5b56562cc84a9f25834aec7071e1ddc010c.jpeg) Can’t find any photos of my first sick fixie, but it was a Volume Cutter with old tube wrapped drop bars. ---
**Author:** ![panda\_heavy\_metal](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/panda_heavy_metal/32/37770_2.png) [@panda\_heavy\_metal](https://tarck.cc/u/panda_heavy_metal)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/50 "2018-11-16T02:36:12Z")
My sw8 2k8 fixie. Was cleaned up by a car a few days after this, destroying the pokes and giving me a nice concussion. Still have it hanging up downstairs, it’s a mide-20th century Australian track bike with some ridiculous lug work, probably a Hartley. Will restore it when I win the lottery. Taken with a potato ![grand%20final%202008%20029](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/c/c66ae4ecd7ec85efd9c8b6b4cf190950abaa959f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![viggen](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/viggen/32/711_2.png) [@viggen](https://tarck.cc/u/viggen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/51 "2018-11-16T13:11:39Z")
Feel the force flow through you! ---
**Author:** ![lbttbl](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/lbttbl/32/575_2.png) [@lbttbl](https://tarck.cc/u/lbttbl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/52 "2018-11-16T14:44:03Z")
Here is my first conversion. Weird old french frame [ ![](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/1/1b1960b1837a527182c35fcbda3f282840b64bfe.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![turpentine](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/turpentine/32/51348_2.png) [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/53 "2018-11-16T14:46:56Z")
Oh wow lotta nerve showin up here like that. ---
**Author:** ![lbttbl](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/lbttbl/32/575_2.png) [@lbttbl](https://tarck.cc/u/lbttbl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/54 "2018-11-16T14:49:12Z")
me? ---
**Author:** ![kmcdon](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/kmcdon/32/56_2.png) [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/55 "2018-11-16T19:18:02Z")
is that the olympic team edition bianchi ---
**Author:** ![BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/beeutiful_wednesday_dds/32/40914_2.png) [@BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://tarck.cc/u/BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/56 "2018-11-21T11:17:20Z")
I rode my fixie on the rollers yesterday which obviously means it’s time to bring back goldsprints ---
**Author:** ![ThurberMingus](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/thurbermingus/32/165_2.png) [@ThurberMingus](https://tarck.cc/u/ThurberMingus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/57 "2018-11-21T14:42:06Z")
![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/2/2dcf1ca298d1ee06db5b187e2d2f415925c3e4ba.jpeg) I’m ashamed of how much I miss this stupid bike. ---
**Author:** ![BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/beeutiful_wednesday_dds/32/40914_2.png) [@BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://tarck.cc/u/BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/58 "2018-11-21T15:13:08Z")
I wanted one of those sooooo bad ---
**Author:** ![anon71759125](https://static.tarck.cc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@anon71759125](https://tarck.cc/u/anon71759125)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/59 "2018-11-22T01:02:13Z")
![image](https://cdn.tarck.cc/original/2X/d/dce67a07064cc3d3856d4d505b0ac009b9edd5eb.jpeg) i dunno ---
**Author:** ![sleve\_mcdichael](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/sleve_mcdichael/32/1051_2.png) [@sleve\_mcdichael](https://tarck.cc/u/sleve_mcdichael)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/youthful-indiscretions-post-your-track-bike-sw8-fixie/22195/60 "2018-11-22T01:27:40Z")
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