FFF final assembly

So, after a lot of parts gathering and spending a fair amount of time at both Performance and Adam's Ave bike shops, I had all the parts (almost) to finish the FFF (Fat Fetish Fixie). I spent 90% of Saturday doing the assembly and doing last minute trips to the shops.

Since the Fetish is a MTB fame, the chainstays are set pretty far apart and the crankset I am using is an old school road Sugino, I had to find a really FRIGGIN' wide BB to get everthing to clear. But I got it all done and it looks nice.

Since the cranset was set out so far, I had to pay a lot of attention to the chainline. I have a track hub that I converted to MTB spacing and I had to space it all the way over to the right to get the chain line right.
This was going to make for an interesting back wheel with dishing and the offset rim.

I laced the wheel up and had to do two pretty weird things to make it work right: I had to put a reverse dish and lace up the rim backwards (withe the rim offset to right). It looks pretty weird and I am still waiting for someone to go "Hey, that wheel isn't built right!"

This looks all sorts of wrong to me, too.
Yep, that's no illusion. It's dished the "wrong" way: to the right. But the offset in the rim made it work out fine.

Here it is as about 90% complete. I just needed a seat post collar, a chain and some chainring bolts. Off to Performance I went.

Funny thing is that the most difficulty I had with the entire build was getting a tire on the front wheel. What a friggin' pain in the ass that was!!!! Holy hell! I pinched at least 2 tube as I had to use some super heavy duty tire irons to get some of the tires on. Total waste of time.

But I got it done, finishing the assembly with that hard as a rock S-works saddle off my new Specialized.She looks a little funky with the skinny tires, but I got some major fatties on their way. I even rode the thing to Adam's Ave to change out the 130mm stem that was making me about 2" taller.

I got some lights, a shorter stem and some bar ends with LEDs in them. I just need some handlebar tape and to put on the fat tires and she'll be done!!!! Stay tuned.