The new baby.. just want to show it off!! 
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Just hope i enjoy singlespeeding now...!!!
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Dipping into SS
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Nice bike mate - what frame is that?
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Tis a P7... was supposed to be a bunky second hand build to try it out but i got carried away!!!
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Looks really nice, very clean/streamlined!
I'm still toying with the idea of SS as I've been having so many gearing problems recently. Just dunno if I'm fit enough to ride any kind of XC with it!
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Cheers Tom...
I'll find out tomorrow if i'm fit enough, i suspect not after 3 weeks off the bike drinking my way round the UK!!!!
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Gearing problems..... how hard can it be to maintain 27 gears vs the effort of having to push up a muddy hill because you cant turn the cranks in your single SS gear?
Each to their own I guess.
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Pushing is easier but slower than riding
Main problem is that I'm a student and can't afford what seems like a lot of upkeep to have reliable gears.
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SS just different, the reduced maintenance thing is a bonus but not really an issue here, i live in Perth WA.
I am a convert to be honest, didn't understand it till i had a go, is brilliant, and so nicely different to my full sus.
two wheels = bike, bike = good
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Its shit if you live anywhere with decent hills, or have to ride on the roads quite a bit to get to the off road bits. Of course, I just hate going really slow, but if you dont mind ambling along then its fine.
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MTB'ing on the road is pants regardless!!! And yeah no particularly big hills here but just a different challenge i guess.
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Its shit if you live anywhere with decent hills
just not true. you don't need to gears to come down, so gear it to go up.
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If you gear it to go up, then the flats are really slow. Of course mtbing on the road aint great but driving to trails is worse.
I can see the appeal, i reckon it would work if you ride lots of flatish single track or trail centres.
Ive run SS on loads of bikes before but they've all been jump bikes. The clean bars and no chain clatter is nice
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Which prety much describes the riding in Perth, heaps and heaps of lovely singletrack with only a few big hills.
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1x9 seems a good compromise but then you have the problem of getting a good chain guide!
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Yes, I have used 1x9 for years on my xc bike, mainly cos i did on my dh bike. I use an e13 SRS guide, the chain doesnt drop off.
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Its shit if you live anywhere with decent hills, or have to ride on the roads quite a bit to get to the off road bits. Of course, I just hate going really slow, but if you dont mind ambling along then its fine.
That is about the truth of it ..
Of course - a couple years ago you had certain types who thought they were superior to be seen riding a ss ... funnilly enough, most chose to ride them at trail centres
.. maybe because thats where they would be seen more , or just because they only rode trail centres?Now they ride 29"wheeled mtbs...and only ride with the aid of a garmin gps thingy .. local trails can be very confusing without one for these types I imagine:lol:
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ha ha ha. i still find it funny that for all this:
'no its isnt faster, yes it is faster'
'x is faster, y is faster'i have yet to come accross a single person i would consider 'fast' at a trail centre...
why is this?
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Its shit if you live anywhere with decent hills, or have to ride on the roads quite a bit to get to the off road bits.
Yeah, I'd not use one to ride out to Hamsterley or Swaledale from home, that'd be rubbish. Or doing High Street on one, that'd be terrible.
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Enjoy, looks nice.
TBH SS bikes are not really massively different, they just don't have gears. Shit in decent hills? well, a bit true, but if you can get up a hill in middle ring you'll be able to SS it. But you do need to re-align the speed a bit, it will teach you more than you want to know about where your threshold is though...
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59 times the pain - Member
Its shit if you live anywhere with decent hills
Plenty of SS riders here in the Highlands and plenty hills too. Don't see many walking either.Your legs are way more adaptable than you think.
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Quantity or lack of gears is in no way the only limiting factor to going fast up or down off road.
If you gear to climb steep stuff then the flat will indeed be tedious, so I'd contend SS is pants anywhere that isn't hilly.
My steep angled sub 25lb SS would climb everywhere faster than my 45lb 6" slack angled full sus and vice versa on the descents.
The P7 is nice btw. Enjoy riding your bike over the weekend and let the interweb naysayers surf in blissful ignorance
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Well i loved my first proper foray into SS, and my god the P7 is quick down hill, i`ve got a 15" frame, its like riding a BMX.. well except for 6" of travel at the front :-).
First proper ride in about 11 years on a HT tail too, bit better than my old Zaskar!!!
More importantly perfect for Perth...
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Each to their own, but I'd not be without a steel SS in the shed. Gets used twice a week through the worst of the winter, with virtually no work other than oil on its chain & brake pads now & again. And our mid-week night rides are far from an amble, trust me. Tis nice to get out of the saddle & power up a hill sometimes. Likewise I wouldnt be without a geared bike. Riding a trail centre on a SS might be all trendy (for some), but not for me. Give me gears, & lots of them for long days out.
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