After a while in the geared wilderness I am going back to having a singlespeed in the stable.
My last bike was a R853 Pipedream but now have hopefully landed myself something in Ti.
Going with much of the build from the PD so staying 26'' but hope to shave off a few grams here and there.
PD:
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Looking for inspiration - preferably rigid examples 🙂
Not particularly lightweight, as the frame & forks are Charge Duster gaspipes. XTR/DT tubeless wheels, WI cranks and Thomson stem/bar help with the weight, and the great big saddle has now gone.
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I like that SC-XC.
How do you get on with the fork?
Planning in staying with a steel fork my default choice being the Salsa Cromoto but looking into other at the moment.....
Pedals, forks, grips, stem, handlebars, saddle can be swapped for lighter.
XTR SPD's, rigid CF, foam, Ritchey WCS, flat CF, almost any other will make it lighter.
I have such a fork that might go to a better place. Email in profile.
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small and light enough - I hope.
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22lb according to my bathroom scales. Though I'm not sure they accurate as think it is probably a bit more that that.
not massivly light but still lightning fast
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This [u]must[/u] be light - I've won stuff on it!
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My Roberts' Dogsbolx, made for me almost 10 years ago. They looked at me a bit funny when I told them I wanted track ends and no stops for gear cables.
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No pictures unfortunately, but my rigid SS weighs in at 22.52lb - lighter than a Roadrat. Pretty cheap build as well: Handsome dog XC frame, Exotic alu forks, hope xc on cheapo mavic rims, factory xc semi slicks.
Carbon 456 SS - fairly light.
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Singular Hummingbird as a 69er. Very rapid. I normally run colour matched Magura Marathons.
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Pretty bog-standard Io, but pretty light & nippy all the same.
A set of carbon bars are on the way to add a bit of comfort & blingness.
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Not light, but bloody great fun tho'
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without the mud it's light
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What you want is a 23lb Swift Mark 😆
A smidge under 21 lbs last time I weighed it.
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It sort of goes off road. 🙂 16 - 17lb
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lighter than with gears but not that light
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lighter
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Cobbled together with spare bits but ended up being very light (obviously in part due to the road tyres):
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No attention to weight saving with Race Face Evolve XC kit, Mavc 521 rims (for toughness on potholes with road tyres) and a very harsh but light Kinesis alloy fork to go with the kinesis Merlin Malt 2 frame.
Not silly light, but light enough for me.
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Now this was silly & light & stack load of fun 😉
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At the risk of ridicule, but it fits the description (and because I don't have a ss bike), here's my KH29. About 12 1/2 lbs as it stands.
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Grrr - does linking to flickr not work then, or am I being a muppet?...
Ah - working now 🙂
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[i]About 12 1/2 lbs as it stands.[/i]
How much does it weight when you fit the frame and back wheel?
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Tollah, he said [b][u]light[/u][/b] single speeds. Towel rail = pig iron 😉
Not especially light:
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Lighter:
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Lightest:
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I'd class about 3 of the bikes above as 'lightweight Single Speed'
The rest are 'lightish by virtue of being a singlespeed' 😕
Bloody nice Cotic BTW ... And the GF Carbon would be nicer with a Carbon Uni-crown type fork (Niner) and by taking the gash fakenger card out of the front wheel* 😛
*Unless it's some deceased loved-one or something profound 😐
also got a ss cross check (not light) and a ss ti lemond (light)
i love em all 😀
good grief. one gear and butt ugly is the common theme for [s]all[/s] most of the above and below.
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I liked mine a lot. I think it was about 20-21lbs, which ain't bad for a mahoosive bike. It wasn't quite versatile enough to be my only mtb though, so it had to go.
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My commute bike.
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Kona scandium Big Unit with carbon cranks, bars and seatpost.
On-one 456 ti 16"(new van nicholas type)
exotic carbon 29er forks
xt cranks and pedals
bonty rxl carbon bars o/s
thomson layback post and thomson lock-on seatpost clamp
truvative hussefelt 60mm stem (about to changed for thomson 70mm)
xt 6 bolt qr hubs with axle rods lock-on skewers
mavic 823 tubeless rims sporting maxxis crossmark 2.1 tyres
xt brakes with 185mm rotors front and rear
on-one smoothie mixer headset
pz racing cr21 carbon bottle cage
blackspire mono veloce 32t chainring
18t rear sprocket and spacers
surly tuggnut tensioner
brooks team pro saddle
24lbs according to the bathroom scales so not that light but damn near indestructable i hope!
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Not massively light, but not much on it I'd want lighter (Royce BB, and Brant's new carbon fork!).
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I must get a shorter stem.
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Not too light.
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Lighter
I dont understand why my SS is 32lb. I mean ive just worked it out. If I put carbon forks on it. Lost 400grams on the wheelset and got slightly lighter bars, stem, seatpost. It would loose about 6lb.
Still no where near 22-23lb that you guys get!
No lightweight though. 
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Litespeed Obed M Frame 1530
Mortop Headset 60
Trigon Forks 493
Ameriacn classic wheels 1404
KCNC Ti Skewers 45
Kenda Klimax tires 660
Maxxis flyweight tubes 160
Wellgo M111 pedals 240
KCNC ISIS Crank/bolts 470
Renthal 32Chain ring 35
KCNC BB/bolts 155
KCNC VB-1 brakes F/R 250
XTR Cables 78
KCNC Seat clamp 10
KMC x9SL Chain 210
Kestrel Bars 110
Syntace F99 90mm Stem 96
143 toupe Saddle 170
KCNC Post 153
Pork rind grips 17
superstar 14t Sprocket 28
6374g 14.05 lbs
21lb Scandal
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about 23-24lbs, now with M520's and Stylo stem
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Got some lightweight carbon bars and rocket rons at the moment. around the 22lb mark
Wow, that Obed is [i]slightly[/i] obsessive...
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With summer tyres this has to be around 22-23lb
Litespeed Obed M Frame 1530
Mortop Headset 60
Trigon Forks 493
Ameriacn classic wheels 1404
KCNC Ti Skewers 45
Kenda Klimax tires 660
Maxxis flyweight tubes 160
Wellgo M111 pedals 240
KCNC ISIS Crank/bolts 470
Renthal 32Chain ring 35
KCNC BB/bolts 155
KCNC VB-1 brakes F/R 250
XTR Cables 78
KCNC Seat clamp 10
KMC x9SL Chain 210
Kestrel Bars 110
Syntace F99 90mm Stem 96
143 toupe Saddle 170
KCNC Post 153
Pork rind grips 17
superstar 14t Sprocket 286374g 14.05 lbs
Blimey - that makes my unicycle (and my road bike for that matter) seem positively lardy 😯
Is it strong enough?!
on and on - Impressive!
That Bontrager on the previous page looks nice too 🙂
Mine, in at around 19lbs, could take another 2lbs or so off, but that would cost money.
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This is how it was first built and gives you a better idea
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strong and very fun. I have no issues with pretty aggressive riding and don't think twice about strength or breakages.
Obsessive, No. I had most of the parts in the shed. It was just a matter of waiting for the right frame to come along so they could all be used.
One of my all time fave bikes - this single speed thing could catch on 🙂
I've been thinking of putting the parts on my Carbon XTC frame. should be looking at 13.3 lbs LOL
Scandal 29er S/S fully rigid, just under 20lb!
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My Cannondale Taurine when it was only one-geared... As is, it was 19lbs. How there are steel bikes on here that are much lighter is beyond me. Unfortunately I don't have this any more as I had to trim the fleet down a little... Gutted! 🙁 One day I may get another one as similar to this as I can.
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There seems to be some confusion how to get a S/S mountain bike to weigh around the low 20's mark!
My answer!
Frame.
Wheels and tyres.
Get this right and your on the way to the low 20's for a 29er and sub 20's for the little wheeled bikes! 😆
Oh! I nearly forgot!!!! MONEY!!!!
Smuzzy,
I believe you!!! The Scandal is a light frame!!! 😉
It's good to see you had some change left from the kitchen to do the bike! 😆
Off to work now!
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don't see the point of a weight weenie singlespeed 😉
weights from 19.2lb to a whopping 22.5lb!
dont't have any pics of my old scandium voodoo sobo in singlespeed guise but that was just under 17lbs (it did have ikkle wheels though)
What bar ends please Tazzymtb?
....and I'm not posting a pic of my Swift, because at 24lbs with front suspension its not lightwieght! Might post a photo of the ridgeline when its done though..
andy, there are some ergon race jobbos on the salsa, look iffy but very very good
and the some serfas ones on the on-ones. Singletrack solutions ones from the states are fantastically light but not very crash proof, I killed my uber light ones and vent back to the slightly heavier serfas ones.
Lickle mountain bikes look good, a lot better than gates like mine but lickle 29ers (sorry tazzy) just look weird.
imho of course.
JTS with WI EE
from this
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rims ****ed into unuseable after 2 winters trail riding
its all in the seasons 😀
its going to be converted into non niche core 105 10spd shortly as i got steep hills on my doorstep now
anyone wants a 700c SS / fixed wheelset with heavily worn open pros - email in profile
23.48lbs with Racing Ralphs on that I'm currently using and not including the bottle. Note - scales used have not been calibrated but if they're good enough for cooking...
Still a way to go with bars/stem/seatpost specifically but no money or justification at the moment.
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DONK- I agree the ikkle on-one was a weird looking little beastie. Stupidly fast and could be a bit too "lively" when flat out. A bit like Kato from the pink panther, one minute all is fine, the next minute it's jumped out of wardrobe trying to kill you with an iron
the selma is a much more sensible bike for a nice sensible chap like myself
ChunkyMTB, do you use a lefty4all for that setup? How do you get on with it?
Just to be different, here is a picture of a singlespeed bicycle actually being ridden, not propped up against a post/tree etc or all shiny and unridden looking in someone's kitchen or garden.
As you can see, it is so light it floats several inches from the ground. Which, considering it weighs a portly 27lbs even without all the paraphernalia, is really quite remarkable.
I manage to negate the considerable weight disadvantage by actually just riding and enjoying the thing, rather than obsessing over things that really don't need obsessing about.... 😉
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^ and your boobs look nice in that photo 😀
elfin, most of us don't take pictures when we're out as we are too busy having fun riding 😉
I take it the piccy of you was taken by a concerned parent worried about the strange man trying to groom all the children in the woods 😆
No it was taken by PeterPoddy. That some children being in the picture automatically makes you think of noncery is a rather worrying reflection on yourself, I'd say. 😕
and your boobs look nice in that photo
Thank you, but tell me, tell me:
Does my bum look big in that photo?
Not at all Fred. I see you have tried to fashion some kind of arse-fascinator from your coat though...
arse-fascinator
😆
I'd obsess about the positioning of that rear mudguard if I was youjust riding and enjoying the thing, rather than obsessing over things that really don't need obsessing about
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It's not terribly light weight, and it's a dodgy phone pic, and worse yet it's probably a size too big for me - but it's a bucketload of fun 🙂
Sadly now returned to gears for the sunnier times to tow children around.
Sadly now returned to gears for the sunnier times to tow children around.
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SPLITTER!
No idea on the actual weight but I reckon I'm pretty near the top of the lightness list for this thread.
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there are pics on the net of sub 14lb niner carbon single speed and singular have a pegasus down to beautifully light as well (17lb is from memory)
ace weights for big wheelers
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19.5lbs
Not the one I was looking for but impressive sub 15lb for a big wheeler :
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Cool bikes.
Thank you to all that have posted - some great inspiration and ideas.
Plus great new word learned ..... arse-fascinator
O-O Scandal was 18.9lb
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Litespeed Obed was 18.6lb
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pmsl at some of the bikes on here, ive just stuck my p7 on the scales and its 29.2 lbs. with slicks on.
can barely believe it, it rides great tho.
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Being an Inbred it's not actually all that light though! I'd be surprised if it's much lighter than my Epic in fact.
Possibly the worst photo in the world, but this is my SS rigid Tinbred
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Weighs in at about 18.5lbs, although I'm not sure if that includes the spare tube taped to the saddle 🙂
Cheers, Rich