[Closed] Are as many people riding SS these days?

Mmmm, sounds nice... The world needs more Konas wirth carbon forks (also, is it one of the orange ones...?)

Also for the record, I have a singlespeed and a beard.

Do you have a beard? Or does a two-speed only entitle you to stubble?

Until very recently, I had a very impressive pair of sideburns (hung over from a beard experiment)

Just a few days ago, my Boss shouted [b][i]BUGGER'S GRIPS[/i][/b] at me.

I shaved them off

The kona is magnolia. there will be pictures. think it is a 2005

Converted all my riding buddies but they still whinge like **** on the hills!!!

Just a few days ago, my Boss shouted BUGGER'S GRIPS at me.

Should've chinned 'im.

he he, no, but sadly it's lost it's buzz.

There was a time I could just sit on my SS bike and gain hero status because it only has one gear. Now I've got to beat two downhillers on 8 inch travel monsters wearing all the protection gear available down a 1:1 hill on a fixed wheel cross bike with rigid forks before I'm labelled cool.

And being cool two or thre times a week just isn't good enough any more.

Im not worried about being cool- My Meta has stickers all over it and that

Dancake - Member

Until very recently, I had a very impressive pair of sideburns (hung over from a beard experiment)

Just a few days ago, my Boss shouted BUGGER'S GRIPS at me.

I shaved them off

I used to have a moustache but my boss told me to shave it off... He said it tickles.

Single speed is common as muck these days.
Rohloffs are still niche though. 😉

Pah ! Single speeders, bunch of freaks with beards and sandals . I ask you what normal person would ride single speeds 8)

I ask you what normal person would ride [s]single speeds[/s] bicycles

Took it up a year ago and love it. The travel on my FS bike is also steadily growing, so I don't think of myself as a freak - more like I get on both buses, if you know what I mean.

Ditched mine as of yesterday. Got a CX, so ran out of shed space and one had to go.

It's now sitting in my parents' garage, I may pick it up again for winter stuff though

Its because people arent willing to put in the effort to ride a bike properly, there all lazy and run double/triple ring 10 speed. So they can just sit and spin all day gaining no decent muscle or superhero status.

Still got mine. Wouldn't ride anything else off road over the winter months. I doubt I'll be doing any racing on it anymore after two knee ops though. 🙁

Yup still got mine and I can't even grow a beard, can do some stubble though 😉

Even converted my mate, had to make his shiny and pimp though

Just picked up my new Genesis iO. So now I have 2 geared bikes and 2 SS. Yes I have a beard.

No beard, the wife says it gives her a rash on her thighs.
No sandals either
SS all the way
32/14 Wanga
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32/16 Soukri 29er
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There is a gear bike too..........

nice and nice

have you got some magic ratios there? tensioner?

Nice, er, Wanga, Bernard. Here's mine, with a rather more traditional 32:16

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Don't think I'll be stopping SS'ing any time soon.

I am most definitely beardless!
Running a ss for commuting and messing about on at the moment (decided commuting with 1 gear is better training!), its fun round the woods...but can be a bit slow...building up a new super duper geared bike at the moment (by building up its currently a frame, a seat clamp and a wheel skewer!).

I had a beard for the last 2 years, but recently shaved it off. over that period i rode my ss a handful of times. but last week i built up a new ss, and tomorrow will be doing my first ss xc race, beard-free. what the HELL is going on?

Did you not know that BMX is to be the new kool 🙄

Fixed is where its at these days "well rad init"

Fixed... that was yesterday afternoon... get with the program ya goon

I rarely ride anything else than SS carbon-rigid these days

innit

Both singlespeedy and beardy. Don't need sus or gears for me local stuff to be honest.

Have two SS - 26" & 29er,but no beard as I think they look 'kin stooooopid & a bit gay.Several geared suss bikes too,it's all ridin'.....

Tell Brian Blessed beards look gay.

1 x 9 29er with 32mm CX tyres is the new SS, and i have a beard
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I'm not be cause some pikey stole it. But thinking of ss'ing the replacement. And I have a stubeard.

Raises hand and confesses to not riding singlespeed much this year.I recon i've only done about 12 rides without gears this year. 😳

Mostly been on the fatbike or tandem.

No beard either as it got too much grey in it so it had to go.

Still loving my Love/Hate.

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More I'd say. I got mocked for riding singlespeed over ten years ago, now all those mocker'rers? ride it themselves.
I don't anymore. My thinking is *** it, it's no hardship hauling all those extra little teeth around with me and they come in useful at times.

Made a start today.

Bits are thrown together (like the front brake which it turns out when opening the box to be a rear. 30 quid bikhut job. Night be a tektro auriga. )

Had a quick ride.

Bars look odd, but really comfy
2 speed seems viable

got a bit of chain slip but will reserve judgement until I have new rings/ sprocket . (Gearing is a bit low for the road)

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I ride a bmx?
28 - 9
no beard, stubble
no sandals

I've got 4.
33-17 29" wheels.
39-16 700c wheels.
30-10 20" wheels.
36-16 24" wheels.

TBH I think it's rather funny that people think there's an image that goes with it or it makes you more,well...whatever it makes you.As a kid that's all we had & only the posh kids had geared bikes.Never felt the need to buy a fake beard & wear it either.... 8)

one here fully shaven here no sandles and a stupid looking fork but rides like a dream and its my only off rd bike use it as much as possible oh yeah 32-18 here in hilly brizzol

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My recent Swift purchase means I am singlespeeding loads more than I did and its great!

No beard. But I ride with a bmx, an inbred SS wit 2.5" tires for fun and a fixie for commuting.

I've also got a geared mountain bike for proper rides!

its the only i bike i have so yep still been riding SS
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suspect it gets fewer new recruits given the reaction of peole but I also suspect those that do will do for the rest of their life.
I have geared bikes but SS for most of winter and odd rides in the summer

No,evolution.

I've just realised that I've not ridden my geared MTB since July last year 😐
My forthcoming 29er is going to be SS too (and I can't wait to ride in sandals again 😛 ).

Ok ok enough torture I confess…… I have only ridden SS cycles for the last 8 years and I’m hooked I carn’t give it up yes I’m a single speed niche haw……there that feels much better. I dont have a beard or sandals but I am some what different 😯

There's so many who have discovered how much going single speed improves their pleasure riding, it's become more mainstream, so it doesn't get mentioned so much.