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Why have you got 26.0 bars with a 31.8 stem?

(my favourite bars though)

Have to say it is because I am very ignorant but trusting of the Cyclefit chaps. Phil was the one advising me. After discussing my needs he made recommendations.

I might have misstated the gearing. From your comments I hope I have. I was a little excited. What is 72 inches on a 48?

Or more precisely:

**Frame & Fork: **Glider Tupelo Mono
**Fork Lay-up/Rake: **Alpha Q GS10
**Headset: **Chris King - Black
**Groupset: **Campag Record Pista chainset 165mm 48T
**Cassette: **Freewheel 17T
**BB: **Record Pista BB
**Levers: **Campag Record
**Brakes: **Record Calipers
**Chain: **Izumi ESH chain
**Wheelset: **Excellence Rims, Gold Tec hubs
**Bars: **Deda 215
**Bar Tape: **Stella Eleganza
**Stem: **Deda Newton 31: 8
**Saddle: **Fizik Arione White
**Seatpost: **Campagnolo Carbon
**Tyres: **Michelin Pro2Race23mm Black
**Inner Tubes: **Michelin AirComp Ultra Light (100X18-23) Std Valve

Oh yes. Gone for 48 x 16 on the fixed side and a little gentler on the free wheel. Gone for a pretty white saddle and bar tape. Compag record components apart from the hub and have forsaken the very aesthetically pleasing track bars for something lighter and more traditional.

I've done it. Spent a very happy two hours this lunch time in Covent Garden discussing frames and componets. Took advice, made decisions, placed my order and paid the deposit. I pick it up the week after next and will post a picture of the finished article then.

Very pretty, very pretty indeed.

Thanks. I've been riding a Glider Boxer Cross ever since I first dicovered Cyclefit and have never had a flicker of pain from it. Before that I struggled around on a heavy old hybrid which I have had cyclefitted and which still gets me to and from work but I feel the time has come to move onto something better. I saw the bike in the shop a little while ago and fell deeply in love. My wife was initially reluctant for me to clutter the house with another bike and concerned about my mid life obsession. She is now content in the knowledge that I am fitter than I was, thinner and thinking of riding a fixed wheel bike and not the office bike which, in her view and mine, is an all together better way of getting through any mid life crisis.

I am struggling on whether to go with the white saddle and tapes as shown or to go for Brookes. The latter is a little cliched but the former could show wear and dirt.

I have, after some months of pitiful and pathetic crawling, persuaded my wife that I need a single speed/fixed wheel bike.

I am besotted with this one:

http://www.cyclefit.co.uk/images/bikes/LARGE/TUPELO_ss_bike_XL.jpg

and, am going off to order one as soon as I retuirn to London from a business trip in a couple of weeks.

I have decided to go for a flip flop rear wheel with fixed on one side and free wheel on the other. I need help to decide what gear ratios would work best.

I am an overweight elderly man. 15 stone and 50. Not a pretty sight. I have cycled 6000 miles in the past year and aim to increase that over the next twelve months. The SS/Fixie is for commuting (only three miles each way from Islington to the City - slight slope on the way home) and short training rides after work, say laps of Regents Park. I am aiming to lose more weight (yes I was really fat when I took up cycling in earnest just over a year ago) and get stronger but I do not want to mess up my aging knees.

Any suggestions on ratios?

Thanks