Bike Build

My desire to build a bike from the ground up has not gone away and gotten the best of me. I am in the process of trying to buy a bike off craigslist to use to build up into a single speed. It's a $50 Panasonic Sport 500. The cost is ideal, but the steel frame is the key piece I want.

I found some neat sites dedicated to fixed gear and single speed bikes. Some of them look like pieces of art. The cleanliness of them just looks awesome. That got me thinking about what I wanted to do with my bike. I remembered seeing a site that allowed you to design a virtual bike. The site is bikeforest.com they have a Bike CAD program for you to use. So far so good, I haven't used it too much.

I've got most of the parts I need for a single speed picked out already, just waiting to see if this bike pans out. I'm going to use the Bike CAD to develop a color scheme that fits the artistic clean lines look that I'm going for.

More to come!