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I still think the Peugeot would make a spankin good fixie, though.

Its a medium  I need at least a large.

Anyway, ive more or less decided to make the peugeot into a fixie, and spend the money elsewhere.  Just need a fixified back wheel!  Ill start picking up parts on ebay soon as my finals finish on friday  

I still wonder if I should have bought that pompino pro I went and saw a few months back, as he was going to let me have it for a song.  It was a bit posh for everyday use though, I was scared the local scallys would covet the precious carbon bits!

Thats water under the bridge. Yeah you could have bought it, flogged the carbon bits online, and replaced them with pedestrian cheap Dimension or similar alloy stuff. Peugeot with a fix setup will be more stealth. Break the bank and get some of those cool Midge bars to make yourself feel special.

When sourcing your new rear wheel, or building it yourself as I know youre capable of doing, dont forget spacing. AFAIK, most axles on cheap and cheerful hubs like the Formulas that I and a lot of other folks  rock, can easily accommodate 3mm of spacers on either side so they fit your 126mm rear drops perfectly. Beats the sh*t out of either having to respace the frame or spring it inwards. Cool thing about the spacers is that they give you a way to easily dial in your chain line. It needs to be pretty dead on for a fixed gear.

Sounds top notch, Im looking for something that I can use with 120mm drops in case i switch the frame in the future, so spacers = win.

Just need to source a hub now, and it seems nowhere in the UK does anything cheap

Weve been through this drill before, as I remember. Then just use any standard threaded hub intended for screw on freewheels. Center the axle, and undish the wheel. Thread on a track cog with some locking compound, and climb your favorite local hill--that suckerll be on  there plenty tight. Cheap or free, minus the cost of a $20 track cog.

A trend here is to use the lockring from an old fashioned cup and cone bottom bracket on top of the cog to keep it snugged. As it wont have reverse threads like a real track lockring, and the fact that your knees will likely snap off before the cog unscrews--I think its overkill. Keep your brakes, as theyre what youll want to use to actually stop. Backpressure is for modulating speed. Mind, you can use backpressure and your noggin to avoid touching the brakes all day if that makes you feel badass.

Anything wrong with that existing wheel on there? If it feels tired, just rerim it as an inexpensive exercise in learning to wheel build.

Current wheel is a freehub, so I cant use that.  I could however take it to bits and reuse the fancy spokes and open pro rim on another hub, but seeing as its a few hours work Id rather be lacing it to a nice hub that I wouldnt be tempted to change later.  Ive got the old steelie un-dished on a rubbish hub at home, and so would rather keep that together so I can loan it to makes and convince them to go ss too

That leaves me needing a hub, so Ill probably hunt down something flipfloppy with lockring threads for peace of mind and a bit of flexibility, then lace it to the current rim when I get the chance after the exams are over.  Woohoo!

Basically, if youre going new, Formula hubs are the defacto entry level standard. I did a quick search, and it seems that you should be able to score a low flange version for $50, or a set with front and rear for $80. Prices seem to be about the same in the UK. Any good bike shop should be able to order them from that big phat catalog that they dont tell civilians about.

I got the Formulas on my bike, though theyre silk screened differently. Seriously awesome hubs for peanuts.

Same as the IROs here:
http://www.irofixedgear.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=27

Ill pop down the LBS on friday, see what I can score.

As for the pompino frame, last time I checked on-one had one large one left for £99.  Id jump at it, if only it didnt mean needing new brakes, hs, stem, bars, 120mm hubs, bb, cranks....  you get the idea

Yeah, if you dont already have a few buckets of parts in the garage, it gets stupidly expensive to build from the frame up. The cost to build my current ride from scratch is about twice that of the retail cost of the bike.