[Closed] Help me choose a single speed

Well, that top one doesn't have brakes at either end, so it's not legal on the streets. Plus the bars look stupid.

Look at the component spec?

(Steel Fuji track which is nice).

top one looks like a charge plug.
and you'll be frowned upon by the fashionistas for running it in anything other than fixed.

If you get a singlespeed bike you can easily put an Alfine on it. How about a Cotic roadrat? They look nice.

Top one looks like an overpriced piece of tat. The bottom one should ride nice, but would benefit from some compact bars and decent brake levers.

EDIT: Which the current Kona Paddy Waggon seems to have!
EDIT2: You couldn't put an alfine on it too easily.. They're 135mm, and the frame will be 120. You could get a sturmey archer hub in there ok though!

I'll be running brakes and a freewheel, I don't care what the skinny jean wearers think

Kona FTW. All day.

Got emailed this from CRC today..
£300!

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=67795&PartnerID=10038

Fixed gears still strike me as ****ing madness, given how often stupid car drivers pull out in front of me and I have to slam on the brakes.

Maybe I don't fully understand the concept, but I'm sticking with my discs.

most fixies seem to stop on a sixpence honourablegeorge - peoples legs are generally stronger than their hands and can thus apply more force to the back wheel.

Stop pedalling, bike stops. What could be quicker than that!
It's down hills where I see the issue!

peoples legs are generally stronger than their hands and can thus apply more force to the back wheel.

Is the most ridiculous comment I've heard in ages!

Of course people's legs are stronger than their hands, anyone who's ever looked at a human body could tell you that. The point is that an efficient bicycle braking system, such as a good disc brake, is designed to only need 1 or 2 fingers worth of input to rapidly slow you down.

If your comment was at all relevant, why don't world cup DH riders run fixed gears as their legs are also stronger than their arms!?!?

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Top one is very nice I think. It does look quite like a Charge Plug (which I have), Kona looks alright but....its a Kona...Don't Halfords sell them? 😉

I think the bars on the top one are a good compromise between normal bars and drops. I have had them on my Plug but currently have standard risers which are unfashionably wide at about 680mm...

Don't know how the State and the Charge bikes compare, but my Plug is bulletproof and looks nice, basically. Its not the lightest perhaps, but its great.
I run mine fixed with just a front brake by the way, seems fine.

If your comment was at all relevant, why don't world cup DH riders run fixed gears as their legs are also stronger than their arms!?!?

Stop pedalling, bike [s]stops[/s] skids. What could be quicker than that!

Fixed (boom tish!) it for you

[i]If your comment was at all relevant, why don't world cup DH riders run fixed gears as their legs are also stronger than their arms!?!?[/i]

[i]It's down hills where I see the issue![/i]

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DezB - Member

Stop pedalling, bike stops. What could be quicker than that!

It's more stop pedalling - rear wheel locks up, no front brake at all.

Shameless plug alert:

Buy my Roadrat?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cotic-roadrat-singlespeed-medium-full-bike-1

What brakes are those, Roadwarrior?

Edit - ignore that, I've just read the spec.

Sorry for the plug how about a Traitor luggernaut if you take a 56 cm frame. Steel, lugged and with a Sturmey Archer 3sp for £600. I have one here. [IMG] [/IMG]

Other than that the Kona Paddy Wagon is a fine bike I ride one. Cinelli Gazzetta is also a fine bike but they are more expensive at at £899 not many deals avaialable as not many stock it. Chickens is the cinelli distibutor.
http://www.chickencycles.co.uk/index.php?cat=1&sub=118&ord=2

workshop@thecycleclinic.co.uk

that luggernaut is nice

I'm 6'2" though

Yes you need a 59 or 60cm frame. The paddy wagon is a good bike take a look at one. In the 5 years I have owned I have found the wheels robust. The only problem I have with it now is last year I went out without my 15mm spanner and got a flat and had to ride home 8 miles on a flat tyre which damaged the rim a bit. Not the bikes fault at all. Also the conti ultrasprts fitted are not very good. It worth fitting 28c Gator Skins. But all tyres fitted to a £500-600 bike are going to be a bit cheap and puncture prone.

My legs work at fast all the way through to stop.

I can slowdown my fixie just as quick with my legs as with brakes.

If I want to skid I can but I hardly ever do.

I ride a fixie but cannot skid, In fact I cannot see how it safe. A front brake is the minium on a fixe I think. The Kona thanfully has a font and rear and bottle cage mounts unlike most silly fixie frames with no braze ons.

I ride a fixie but cannot skid, In fact I cannot see how it safe. A front brake is the minium on a fixe I think. The Kona thanfully has a font and rear and bottle cage mounts unlike most silly fixie frames with no braze ons.

the cinelli gazzetta does look nice, can't seem to get a good deal on it though

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horizontal dropouts and 130mm

I ride a fixed Kona Paddy waggon. The recent ones are far more conservatively styled. Excellent review [url= http://www.konaworld.co/documents/PaddyWagon_CyclingWeeklyUK.pdf ]here [/url] and lovely geometry. Mine has front and rear brakes and I use them exactly as on my other road bikes. The minimal legal requirement (read cover for should you be involved in an accident) is a front brake if fixed and front and rear if freewheeling.

There is not a chance that I can lock the back wheel. I know that some riders ride with a big chainwheel to achieve this, but why bother when a dab of the left lever does the same.

For flat bared-ness decathlon were doing one for about £60 at one point?

Roadrat is a very good option and super versatile. 26" or 29" or even 700c ;), discs or rim brakes, singlespeed, fixed or geared, there's even clearance for 1.8" 29er tyres if you're careful.