Singlespeed Conversion

Try wooly hat shop on ebay, their spacers tend to be in a few different sizes, as well as an 18t and 16t cog, whereas most other manufacturers only supply 2 spacers and one cog. Failing that, use plastic waste pipe.

If you need to use a chain tensioner, try a pull up type tensioner rather than a push down type, the bit extra wrap round the cog stops the chain slipping when you're really grinding those cranks round.

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Hi,

If your bike doesn'thave sliding dropouts then a chaintensioner will be needed - on-one sell them, http://www.on-one.co.uk
there is a fairly straight forward way of coverting the cassette, if it strips down.

I once used a piece of plastic wastepipe (the stuff the runs from your kitchen sink into the drain)cut to the right length to give the appropriate spacing, sandwich the cog between that and another piece cut to fill up the width of the cassette then use the lockring to fix in position.

It does work.

I messed about with the gearing and found that for commuting I used a 42 x 16t set up.

The most important thing is chain alignment.

It is possible to though, with the right gear set up to make a single speed without the need for a tensioner, I think I read somewhere that you can get half chain links to make this possible.

good luck.