[Closed] Single speed bikes - I just don't get it???

Why not?

they're all crazy!

Oh dear... you've opened up a whole kettle o' worms here me laddy.

(...I'd duck run for cover if I were you)

Singlespeeds: good for riding through filthy stinking winter muck on gently undulating terrain - and pretty much nothing else, really*

And don't let anyone tell you anything otherwise.
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* Other than being able to belong to a niche-core niche of MTBers who for some reason believe they have bigger ca-ho-nes than anyone else. 😉

*Ducks and runs for cover*

Scott, thank you for that detailed explanation!

Why?

Because they are [b]AWESOME[/b]

😀

Singlespeeders don't need gears. The bikes are so afraid of their awesome power, they mould their cogs to the right size for the conditions.

Single speeders can't answer the question and just throw abuse. Just like they can't handle a little climb, 😆

lol

Gears are for queers.......................................or my other bike.

Your loss...

I had 3 bikes at one time, a full sus a narly hardtail and a single speed

On my ride to work, generally the full sus takes me 47 minutes, the hardtail took (sold it now) 45 minutes and the single speed took 50 minutes.

Just shows that the SS is not as slow or as hard to ride as you may imagine, probably because its light and also when you come to a hill as you can't click it down a cog or two you have to get spinning.

That's the point, for me.

Also, my wife sometimes rides the SS as she can't get her head around gears....

Oh, I get it now, they're for technically challenged people that don't understand gears!

try it you might like it, i did for the sswc2k+1 and ive only ridden 2 geared bikes since, less gears more beers and all that jazz!

Try it - just leave your current bike in the same gear all day, it's just the same [although they'll try to tell you it isn't]

when you've decided that it's pointless - start changing gear again

surely writing sswc2k+1 is as long as writing sswc2001?

less zero's, more beero's

Shirley this is a wind up 🙂

Singlespeed bikes are rubbish, and cannot be ridden where there are proper hills. Fact.

Everyone who rides SS is a cock.

Including bmxers?

[i]Singlespeeds: good for riding through filthy stinking winter muck on gently undulating terrain - and pretty much nothing else, really*

And don't let anyone tell you anything otherwise.[/i]

SS is best in the summertime. ner ner ner.

i think we should leave the doubters ,, in their ignorance and keep it to those who have seen the light,,

Shouldn't they be called single gear rather than single speed, does SS sound 'cooler' or something 🙄

[i]Other than being able to belong to a niche-core niche of MTBers[/i]

surely SSing is no longer a niche, there's too many of them about, i ride one to look at the scenery, especially up climbs i tend to find 😳

so it's just so they can make up jazzy little rhymes?

miketually - Member

Singlespeed bikes are rubbish, and cannot be ridden where there are proper hills. Fact.

Everyone who rides SS is a cock.

word.

Maybe if all the normal riders started to refer to 'them' as [i]single gear[/i] bikes they might just STFU about their squalid little affectation 😉

Amen as above - SSers are all c0cks.

Especially the ones who are evangelical about it 😉

do singlespeeders really exist then ?

No - just people who claim to ride SS (and build them up but never ride them) in order to be Kerrazy! and deliberately different.

Do you need to 'get it'? I don't 'get' road cycling but many other people do; I just accept that and don't feel the the need to question it. I would like to try SS though 🙂

nuke - Member
I would like to try SS though

Bi-curious? remember, it's not wrong, it's just different

The worst are those that do the whole SS thing on a steel, rigid, retro machine. Awful people! On that note, I'll get my coat..................

The BNP plan to erradicate singlespeeders and that's a fact. They're all a bunch of wannabe heroes I heard 😉

I ride singlespeed after naysaying it for a few years, I actually found I just enjoyed the simplicity of it.. I'm not a wannabehero or anything, I've got gears on my commuting bike, my brother in law rides a full sus geared and wanted to try S'speed so he left his bike in middle/middle for a ride I think it's the same thing..

The whole niche / lets grow 'wacky' beards thing winds me up, why can't we just all consider ourselves bike riders? ❓

Single speed bikes make sense if they suit your riding style and the terrain you ride most often. Hills generally aren't too much of a problem if you've got the gearing right and because a single speed drive train is so simple you can mash the pedals round without worry that your gears are going to slip.

For sure there are some SSers who like to see themselves as wacky and think that growing bears somehow confirm this fact but most of us ride single speed because its nice and simple and the bikes are fun to ride which is surely what riding should be all about. For those of you who haven't tried it you should give it a go before declaring it as cr*p.

Blimey SS'ers

[b]growing bears[/b]

Yeah, its seen as the big new trend in single speeding. Instead of growing a beard so people can spot you from a distance some single speed wannabe heroes have started strapping grizzly bears to their handle bars to demonstrate how tough they are and to maul passing full suss multi geared bike riding sissys 😉

I really shouldn't try and touch type when I can't do it...

It was an excuse to have another bike.

Try it, you'll love it. I reverted back to 9 gears for a couple of years or so. Biggest mistake I ever made. Now I just have 1 again and the bike feels so right. There really is nothing like the gurning and contorting that's involved in getting up a steep climb on a 1-geared-wonder. And when you finally get off to push, it's OK because you've only got one gear and you did much better on the climb than the geared guys would've had they been on a SS bike 😉

They're cheap...

I just love being able to be in the correct gear all the time, and not having to get off and push.

With gears I find that I just have more wrong gears to be in... 😀

Nice and light for carrying.

Welcome to the forum by the way Toddboy, you seem like just the sort of startlingly original thinker this place needs. 😛

I quite like the idea of a Ti Hardtail SS 29er. 😳