Phew that was close. Nearly spent all my money on a new alfine hub/wheel build.

Fortunately i remembered in time that gears are for gayers.

And girlfriends.

I may have been drinking. 😀

mmmm, nice

eh gears are for gayers? even a single speed has 1 gear, how do you propel your bike pray tell???

With my legs. 🙂
Gear, single good
gears plural bad

Gears are for quiet gayers; quiet in the sense that we don’t need to tell everyone how niche we are/are not…

ok, whatever floats your boat, not had a single speed since I was about 5 so I cant remember how they ride!

You need gears and suspension to be a good rider

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SSD, how about a singlespeed geared bike for a change?

MGR says that SSers wouldn’t know/be able to recognizeany differences in bike setup. And they should know as HTs are just about acceptable while SS, 29 & 69 are just not cycling.

Ahmen

anyway I only use one gear at a time, its just I have 27 to choose from!

I was going for that idea with the alfine but went to majestic wine shop and spent all m money on ale.

DJglover, is that a penis? How thoughtful of you. 😆

I do like a stimulaing debate. This more fun than… well actually my missus is looking over my shoulder so i can’t tell oyu about that.

so singlespeeddan, talk to me as I dont get it, whats the appeal of single speed and where can you enjoy its disadvantages to its fullest?

It just makes me smile, I get a lot of pleasure out of churning out the same gear up down and along. Maybe its coz i’m thrawn, can’t explain it better than that. I like the fact that i don’t hit my derailleur off rocks and bend it. (i did have a geared bike for a while but it became SS) I don’t ride rigid though i might get a fork to use when the suspension is getting serviced/through the winter. And quite close to me there are some hills called the cairngorms which are excellent for experiencing the disadvantages of singlespeeding.

some wierdo’s like playing with pushbikes in muddy woods

others prefer to do it up a mountain

some even choose to do it with only one gear

and other people are in desperate need of a shit, #i shall return shortly.

‘hills’ said it in one

As I mostly ride from my door the local riding really doesn’t need anything other than my rigid SS. Sometimes though it can be fun on my geared FS.

If I lived in the Lakes/Wales/Scotland then maybe I’d be mostly on FS. Here in Stoke though my SS is great 8 times out of 10.

fair play Dan I can understand what youre saying, people think I’m mad travelling 2 – 3 hours in a van on a saturday morning with my pal to ride our bikes up and down some Welsh hills! ”You’ve been where? Wales???”
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