It’s going well.
I found it’s limits at SITS, the mixture of mud and grass getting wedged between the belt and pulley eventually broke the belt, although Gates have promised me a free replacement.
In normal mud and sand, it’s brilliant.
Curtis is 853 front triangle and headtube with 725 stays, Phil Wood ebb, built as a first by Brian Curtis, polished and laquered finish.
Would you like some close ups?
Slight hijack, but I’d love to know how many of you are using these as your only (mountain) bike – or have you also got a fully geared 26″ full suss in the shed? There are some very temptingly beautiful bikes in this thread, but sadly I fear it would have to be an ‘instead of’ rather than ‘also’ for me to justify one…
I have a 26″ SS with font boing, the XC9, and a Nicolai Helius CC, and a road bike.
The most ridden is the XC9, mendip, quantock, anywhere really.
Helius is mainly for big days out, where suspension makes it just a bit more daft.
All my bikes are singlespeed and big wheeled. from my light and racy to big days out in the mountains, chunky and boingy fronted. I may add a gearie back into the collection (1×10) for a something like a transition bandit 29er or niner WFO for alpine hols, but that’s it.