They make my boringly easy local rides fun (and hard) again. There’s no better reason 😀

They are Teh Awesomest….that’s a far better reason.

true dat.

They are original awsomeness.

Changing fashions – if you’re a fat lad who likes pies and beer and isn’t very fit then they’re not a good thing

If you’re a 10st whippet and you’ve got a hardtail and a 5.5 inch AM and a cyclocross and a road bike and an 8″ DH bike then it’s something different

If you can only have one bike then don’t have a single speed rigid cos its like going back 30 yrs before gears and suspension were invented. May as well get rid of your smartphone and laptop too

They iz for attentionhoorz innit.

WTF is a smartphone and a laptop? 😉

Tbf, my first mountain bike was a Raleigh M-trax rigid bike with 18 gears and canti brakes and it made me fitter and I picked up a lot of technical skills

But I wouldn’t want to swap back now

What stu said. Only for bellends.

Some aspects of technology are good , suspension is one of them

Highfivez fellow bellend al.

WTF is a smartphone and a laptop

They’re like new fangled typewriters with electrickery and weefee and internets

Sounds a bit like witchcraft to me.

Only for bellends

*tick* 😉

Bell ends……… Snigger

are they like bar ends?

I agree, they also make you seem 2 feet taller and of course much cooler than the other people on bikes with geary type growths.

aa – Member

are they like bar ends?

Very much so.

Full of function but the MBUK boyz hate them.

Aesthetically beautiful – in the right hands

Without the right hands they’re as much use as a bar end on a road bike

JRTG-what is the first bike?

The only thing worse?

Tilt shift/instagram effects.

Arf

I’ve just bought a cheap kona unit,simply to save my other full suss geared bikes in good nick through this bad wet winter.I didn’t like it to start with, but after 6 really muddy wet rides I’m starting to gel, and like the challenge of my normally boring local loops.I can go and thrash around for an hour or two, get totally knackerd and give it a quick swill with the hose.job done.

Was just mulling over switching SS stuff to the scandal 29er, with rigid forks from parts bin.
Kismet, bell end, yada yada

I’ve just bought a cheap kona unit,simply to save my other full suss geared bikes in good nick through this bad wet winter.I didn’t like it to start with, but after 6 really muddy wet rides I’m starting to gel, and like the challenge of my normally boring local loops.I can go and thrash around for an hour or two, get totally knackerd and give it a quick swill with the hose.job done.

IMAG0222 by eastham_david, on Flickr

just like me, just about to try this new fangled 29″ thing with a Kona unit as well.

SS, fully rigid, 29er will be truly awesome 😉

Cynic-al, not Instagram, sorry, will try harder next time!

Groundskeeper, it’s a niner one 9, lovely machine if a little harsh

What kind of idiot would throw away 30 years of ‘progress’ and ride a clown-wheeled ungeared unbounced bike, just like when they were kids? That means they can stop fiddling with technology and just go ride their bikes!

What a bunch of ****.

4 guys went night riding in Surrey last night. Conditions were a tad claggy. The 2 on front-squishy dangly-equipped 26ers went home in a grump after an hour, whining about chainsuck and no traction. The 2 on big wheels (3×29″ wheels between them), singlespeed and rigid got 2 hours riding in, burnt a bunch of calories, then retired to the pub for tasty pints and a natter.

True story that.

only for cocks, everyone knows that you have to be gnar to the power of radsik and have at least 5″ of travel or you’ll die on any trailmincers centre in the UK.

Have tried this old fangled new recipe in the last 6 months and love Singlespeeding for it’s simplicity and big wheels for rolling blah blah blah.. but rigid forks have now been replaced with a set of Fox’s bouncing plushness… I honestly found with rigids all the lovely carried speed was pretty F’in horrible when descending downhill and had a few close ‘uns. So made the switch back to bouncers and love riding my bike more for it….
Just my two pence worth.

if you’re a fat lad who likes pies and beer and isn’t very fit then they’re not a good thing

Unless – like me – you want to stop being a fat lad.
It also teaches you things about cadence, momentum & picking lines, so your skills should improve too.
Add in the low maintenance in the winter aspect, and you can only call it a win.
(Mine does flex at the front, but that’s because of the suspension, rather than the number of pies consumed 😉 )

Just use mine for for what it is.cheap basic way of some winter training in the mud.If I want to big drops and fast techy downhills I’ll use my 150mm full suss.I wouldn’t have a ss rigid as my only bike but as a second bike (or third in my case)they’re Gr8.I’ve been out every day this week with no cleaning,try doing that on a full suss geared bike and watch it sieze up before your eyes.I can’t do all the knarly tracks or a 80k xc rides on it but when the better weather comes I’ll be all the fitter for it.

I can’t do all the knarly tracks or a 80k xc rides on it

That’s down to the rider not the bike. 😉

Maybe down to me but I simply don’t enjoy trying to ride a rigid off 4ft plus drops and knarly downhills.Doing an uplift day tomorrow at Revolution bike park,and riding my kona unit would simply ruin the day for me.SS rigids are Gr8 for what they are, but there are better bikes out there.Each to there own though.

4ft drops and knarly downhills all in the same ride.

AWSUM. 😉

Winner = http://vimeo.com/6403750

If anyone wants to swap my 17.5″ simple for their 16″ simple, I might listen.

Is knarly a word or is it some mbukism ?

It’s a raddism I thinks.A derivation of Gnarley from the olde english gnarrlee,literally -to shred the gnarr.

I believe it was first recorded in the doomsday book.

Ah I see I’ve a colleague that uses it too , always makes me chuckle but he also likes mbuk , thus colleague rather than friend 😉

Shredding the knarly is how William the Conqueror used to describe trotting over a piece of smooth track on his long travel horse.

Does anyone run a SS as their only bike.>? I would probably go 32-16 (or even 18 to begin with)

After ripping a mech off recently, I was going to give it a go but its the 5 miles of road before I get to the woods that puts me off… (I dont often have the luxury of the car)