I haven't ridden a bike at all in years. I haven't ridden regularly since Japan. But I do want to get back to it, or at least try to get back to it. Healthy, has potential to cut down on car trips, etc. But since it's been so long, I don't know how it's going to work out. So I'm waiting for the MSU bike sale. When the abandoned bikes around
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Also, if you get one, let me know! I can't do long rides, as I've just started to ride my bike after a long time, but I would love to have someone to ride with.
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And I will let you know when I've got one!
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Definitly plan to bike around campus once most of the hordes are gone.
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I know you don't want drop bars, but for $45 you get this bike and throw a set of these porteur bars or these moustache bars on it and you've got yourself a very nice setup ( ... )
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Just remember not to let something as minor as the handlebars influence your desicion too much. Those are always replaceable, and a fairly inexpensive part for porteur/moustache bars.
As for single-speed bikes, you can always convert a geared bike to a single-speed. For older bikes that have a threaded freewheel and semi-horizontal dropouts (70s era 10-speeds and earlier) you can just take off the freewheel cluster, put on a 1-speed freewheel (about $15 at any shop that sells BMX parts) and have your local bike shop re-dish the wheel for you and shorten the chain.
I recently converted an early 90s road bike which had 14 speeds into a 1-speed fixed-gear for training at our local velodrome. Even with rebuilding the back wheel on a new fixed-gear hub, all the conversion work only took me 6 hours.
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