First Post

First post so here goes

I kind of got turned onto the idea of Singlespeed bikes/fixies becaue if im honest im a bit of a dummy when it comes to gear selectionon on a multi speed bike, i would get there in the end but for me it kind of ruined the experince faffing about with gears.

I biked quite a bit when i was little and biked to work when i was a bigger boy, mostly mountain bikes and at one stage BMX but that was short lived, never really got into road bikes, they just didn't feel as solid to me as my mountain bikes where.

I was pretty clueless as to bike repair and maintenace when i was younger as well, i think i coated everything in WD40! with the hope of it not breaking.

So now im a bit older and a tad wiser the bike bug has bitten me again and in a big way.

So i could go out a buy a brand new singlespeed/fixie but for me part of the appeal for these type of bikes was to do it myself, to make it mine, to stand back and say yeah i did that.

So i picked up a old Raleigh mountain bike frame and got started and HomeBrew bikes was created.

HomeBrew because they are all reconditioned bikes with some new but moslty re used parts, i didn't want cost to be a prohibitive factor if people want to buy these bikes, for me the chance to get people on thier bikes is more important.

The Raleigh is my first ans she shall be mine but hoping to build more including raod bikes which are probaly better suited to fixie/singlespeeds tha MTB.

TNT