[Closed] Your very first Single speed

No pictures of my actual bike...but it was exactly like this:

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I had one of these when I was about 9...

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Sc-xc, aren't those the same bars you have now, just modified slightly?

Same forks. Spension.

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Loving the gold.

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Another Raleigh. 🙂

They ain't singlespeeds, they're just kids bikes with no gears.

'Get Cycling Right'

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N-N-B on his Dawes, followed by me on my old Inbred. 63mm of travel and V brakes. Happy days.

GCR

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1st
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/3200008516/ ]P7[/url]

2nd
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/250708268/ ]Handjob[/url]

3rd
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/3200005146/ ]black handjob[/url]

4th
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/250707400/ ]planetx 1[/url]

5th
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/250707008/ ]UNIT[/url]

6th
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/2239387703/ ]wanga[/url]

7th
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/6059841566/ ]Rigid 69er[/url]

8th
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/8440772461/ ]swift[/url]

Mine wasn't quite as chopper-cool, but it was a lot like this:

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I had one of these...

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Cause I wasn't big enough/old enough for a Chopper 🙄

1994 Rock Lobster that I owned from new with 2002 MX Pro forks and magic 34:18 ratio. Great fun bike and only sold last year.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rick2/459975353/ ]Fedw Wood - 15th April 2007[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/rick2/ ]Rick T.[/url], on Flickr

And for RD's delight is his old Unit that I bought off him and used at the SSWC in Aviemore.

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Currently running this 456 with magic ratio of 32:17 (despite having a tensioner in this shot)

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rick2/7906198844/ ]IMAG0245[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/rick2/ ]Rick T.[/url], on Flickr

Mine was something much like this, rod brakes and all...

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Hercules something or other back in the early sixties.

MK 1 & the same colour too..........

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& yes I know it had 3 gears,well yes it should have...couldn't get first,second kept jumping out & slipping,that gear stick was lethal !So third was the only one that worked properly

2000 ally kona kaboom.
can't find a picture.

scxc, my Strika was green. It was all of teh ossumz!

And then I had a Super Tuff Burner to follow!

Owned for several years it has just left the stable 🙁
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzrich/1484960461/ ]sswc simonbarnes[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/nzrich/ ]Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

Not my first but my fave (and first I have a photo of)..

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and in its natural habitat..
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Modded my Dekerf with old bits and a short 105 mech for a ride to the sunrise on Holmbury Hill as 2000 clicked into place. Foggy morning. No sun. No pic.

First and only. Owned since new. Bodged singlespeed 7 years ago with a home made tensioner... until the chainstay snapped and then modded localy (Alves).

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Does the job.

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94 Rockhopper, I have no pics of it though.