Vintage bike going Fixie

[4xdog]

Here's what the Raleigh Super Course Mk II looked like in 1975, from a brochure I picked up my first year at university. It was a "nice" but not a "really nice" bike -- a perfect platform for your fixie conversion.

PS: The handwritten price of $219 was my note from the autumn of 1975 -- inflation-adjusted, the Super Course was not a cheap bike.

 

[banjopete]

I'm a massive single speed fan, rode fixed for a few years but came around to single speed. Also went from a converted road bike frame which was a vintage French Bertin (the black one) to a more modern sloping top tube track dropout framed Giant. 4th year on the grey one. One gear is so quiet, and worry free, no going back for me for my needs around here in flat land.

Have tons of love for the hipster brooks saddle too, 11 years on my current seat and I see what all the fuss is about. Also two powdercoat jobs now done on bikes and I love them. Pre-covid I was a snow bike winter commuter and rocked these speed machines once the freeze went away. Work from home has reduced the kms ridden but not the enjoyment.

Fun seeing the bikes you're finding, and yeah I'm a lanky *******.

 

[Biff Lungren]

Since seeing the raleigh brochure above I can't get the smell of the bike shop I went to as a kid out of my head. That was Santa Cruz, next to the Rio theater,