29er Single Speed BACK to 1 x 10 Geared.

This will probably create me some stick from the 29er single speeders out there, but I wasn’t giving the bike enough attention with it being set up as a single speed because I found the single speed limiting to my kind of riding and terrain so have now gone 1 x 10 and kept it fully rigid.
The first big ride on it tomorrow morning so I’ll let you know what I think to the 32t 36-11 setup! 😀
Here it is!

I’m expecting some proper sarcasm from certain people, not mentioning names, but it begins with T and ends with azzy! 😉

you’re going back to gears? those Mayans have a lot to answer for!

Meh, I’m looking to change my Singlespeed frame (currently a Sanderson Soloist) to something capable of taking a 1x(9/10) setup for when the mood takes me…

That’s a lovely looking bike.

after much SS 29ing i put gears on and it’s pretty much the same, but with gears

No shame in it. My Inbred went SS – 1×10 – SS over the last year.

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Now toying with building a 1×10 Scandal for next summer. 😉

Don’t get me wrong Guys,I did like the S/S, but I kept picking the 3 x 9 green bike with suspension forks every time. Now I can also ride my light weight rigid also!

TK, That looks sh1t mate. 😯 😀 😉

Chainslapper!

Let’s not tell the world that certain people have also gone back to 3 x 9 gears! 😆

No…..lets tell them…………….. its me ……. I have returned to gears on this and will shortly be converting the other bike to gears also. 😆

Oh and BTW, your bike looks even better than before and will be a whole lot more practical for you up “intills” “uptnorth”. 😀

Have your arms grown to reach the bottom of your pockets to pay for that lot??

TK despite the ‘growth’ on the rear wheel (which I’m sure can be filed down) a lovely looking bike. What is it?

i’m gonna do the same this year – ss 29er to geared (2×10 prob).

but thats only cos i’m planning on entering the Trans Nepal 8)

1×9, but the important part is that it’s rigid
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Chainslapp!

No food for a week and I’m planning on sending the kids out to work to help pay for the bits

tk46hal- for that abomination i’m not giving you my frame, you’ll do something hideous and wrong to it*!

that bike is now wronger than giving a granny a pearl necklace 😆

* having said that, it may have a new bottom welded to it to make a custom fatbike

Drofluf!

It’s one of the original Scandium Scandals with a tk46hal paint job!

It’s one of the original Scandium Scandals

in a special umpa lumpa size for the vertically challenged

Tazzy,

Please, please, please, please let me have your frame! 😳

Tazzy,

Got to admit, it does look tiny, but it isn’t as I am 5feet 9inches and a bit tall! 6 feet in the wives heels 😛

in the wives heels

now many wives do you have??

Wife’s! 😳

I’m looking at holiday cottages in France at the same time, multi-tasking!

Phew, I thought you were trying to say you had a wife in every village.

is giving grannies a pearl necklace wrong?? 😳

Anyway i have gears on the road bike- nice and dry this morning around the lanes of staffordshire 😉 Tazzy how was the slopfest??

tk- be interested in how you get on as Im supposed to be doing the trans -pennine route in the summer and I reckon ss may be a tall order

Pop was fine, found a new climb that was ace, a real grunter that went on for ages, I was a happy little bunny 😀

Good luck on those fast but ‘optimistic’ tyres ! 😉

Pop!
I’ll let you know after my ride tomorrow how I find just having a single 32t ring at the front. My only concern will be those granny gear muddy rocky steep climbs we have up north. I’m hoping the 36 at the back will be enough to keep me going with a bit more grunt!

went from SS to 8S, not too many gears for my thumb to hurt before I’ll get to the other end of a cog…

Pop!
Just got in after a 35 miler and found it brilliant. The 11t at the back, I found almost ample on the fast down hill bits and the 36t at the back a bit harder than normal compared to having a granny, but you just work harder and you get to the top of the hills before everyone else!
Highly recommended!