If I want to look for a flat bar commuter bike, what do I search for?

Hybrid

I think what I want is more like an east end sisters jeans bike with flat bars and gears. What’s that?

Fakenger fixie

If that’s what you want, then buy an old road frame with sliding dropouts for abou £30 and build it up yourself.

Does anyone make these? CBA doing it myself 🙂

Pompino, Kaffenback, Roadrat, Boardman or just trawl through the bikes till you find what you want

Yeah, there are plenty of folks on ebay jumping on the bandwagon selling clapped out old road frames, resprayed and fitted with new tyres and super narrow bars – not cheap though (I think the ebay bubble has definitely burst – I’ve been searching myself but anything with ‘fixie’ in the title fetches ridiculous prices). Just search for ‘fixie’ (or ‘fixtie’ – what’s that all about?). See?

Woah Mama! They ain’t cheap, for sure

you thinking of going fixed Sam? mine cost me 30 for the bike and another 110 to make it work. there was a carrera subway in the cash converters down opposite castle market. pretty much the idea commuter

No, not fixed, I’ll need some gears (at least to start with)