I have this (old) Raleigh Sirocco that a (old) friend gave me. Pretty much everything except the chainset, calipers and frameset is knacked. Need to give the wheels a closer look but the bearings are as rough as any I’ve felt.
Anyway, don’t want to chuck it if I can make something cheap and cheerful out of it. Was thinking fixie as it has horizontal dropouts and even some (drilled) chain-tugs/adjusters.
But – I live on a big hill.
Then I saw I could singlespeed it then flipflop it with a fixie? Freehub one side, fixie the other?
Anyone done this? Is it a silly idea?