Does anyone still single speed?

Of course 🙂 My singlespeed is my main bike although I’ve recently bought an XC race bike which has stolen some riding time from it.

It’s rigid and no dropper, I just love that there is nothing to fiddle with, you just go, steer and stop.  And you can’t be lazy, it’s full effort or walk so it’s a proper work out 🙂

There’s a really simple solution to needing more than one gear.

69″ and 90″

hell yes! fully rigid too! (but with plus tyres to take the edge off)

‘makes the trails come alive’ re: makes our local become more of a challange.

NO!

Can’t say I don’t learn. A decade of almost all SS riding taught me that it’s stupid and dumb. Brief rebuilds over the next decade just confirmed this.

I do keep looking on how to rebuild a fixed disc MTB with 29″ wheels and tubeless wheels but it hit’s an impass each time with the fact the hub is on a non tubeless 26″ wheel and the best bike for it is a Stache with a silly rear hub dimension then I realise I’d prefer to spend that money on something else.

Then I think about resurrecting the old Ferrous as a fixed road bike for the clubs TT but remember there’s a wobbly BB in it that needs unspecified work to remove it.

So I just go back to 22 speed road bikes and 12 speed MTBs as it’s simpler.

Ohh yes, 7 bikes and 4 are singlespeed, Singular Peregrine and Gryphon, Stooge Speedbomb and a track frame Bombtrack Needle…

I can still never quite explain myself to others though when they ask why i like it, i just do…..

@tazzymtb What is the (presumably) Titanium bike with the Cannondale-esk killer V frame profile? My eyes aren’t good enough to make out the head badge.

I don’t get time for much proper riding nowadays but I SS pretty everyday here and there to work and back everyday. not much in the way of hills on the commute but the farm roads and bridleways make for perfect SS terrain and 34:17 is about right.

https://i.postimg.cc/3RF3J9Lx/IMG-3068.jpg

Yup, Ramin 3+ going strong. Entered SSUK 24 for a giggle seeing as it is down south this year.

My last ride out, 6 bikes in total, 3 singlespeeds.

I guess that’s a ‘yes’ then …

🙂

Still get my Surly 1×1 out for a spin

current chameleon with a 150 lyrik, donkey poo brown langster for town (pub) duties, surly crosscheck for town too depending on the mood and my partner’s riding, have a kona honzo ESD that’ll likely get singlespeeded at some point.

it all still works. just like riding a bike. 😉

What is the (presumably) Titanium bike with the Cannondale-esk killer V frame profile? My eyes aren’t good enough to make out the head badge.

It’s his one-of-one Stooge Moto-bastard.

I reckon that 5 of the 6 bikes in Tazzy’s post are Stooges, not sure of the models though (the other is a Jones something or other).

@thepodge the matte ti stooge is a one off that was made for me as an SS only ego chariot with some funky geometry and lots of other custom bits. Got a new front end arriving for it in 10 days or so and its currently running my own design super wiiide ti sweepy bars.

as @didnthurt has said others are  my original Jones 29 spaceframe (still an amazing bike for woodsy singletrack) the others are various stooges. Top pic is Dirtbomb, Motobastard, and MK1 with a custom paintjob, bottom pic is ti dirtbomb with double duro crux 27.5×3.35 and lots of carbon bits including cranks, enve stem, enve seatpost and whiskey  millhouse carbon braced risers and is surprisingly light for a monster truck

Cheers for the info, I like that a lot.

Another one motivated by this thread. I’ve a 1990 Fisher MTB which I owned from new and has had a number of guises over the years. Most recently (albeit that approx 2008) it went singlespeed.

A lot of things led to it being boxed up and ignored while I’ve ridden more modern stuff. However, a combination of a lack of riding mojo and some poor health made me look for something to help me ‘reboot’ so the old Fisher is now back in action! The pulley roller on the tensioner had disintegrated but a removal of 1 link has it pretty much ‘magic gearing along’!

Hella yeah!

Have a MK2 Stanton Sherpa running a 32 up front & normally a 16 t on the rear(Essex is VERY flat)

Did a bike packing trip on it & just swapped the 16 for a 19.

It’s soooooo good, can keep up with everyone when it’s running the 16 & climb all the local hills.

The 19 is way too spinny for Essex. You just feel like Josh Brollin in  the Goonies.

Even in my new temporary home in the foothills of the Alps, I’m still single speeding

By accident to be fair, as my Kindernay gearhub broke shortly after moving here, but SS works very well — if I choose my route carefully, I can get to peaks at over 1,600m with only a few hundred metres of walking

I took my geared bike out this morning for the 1st time in a while. Felt like cheat codes!

Same as @nickc – we used to ride them together back in the Chilterns 15 years ago. No interest in going back but since you asked for pics…

This took AGES to arrive (bought from the legend that was Sideways Tim) but it was worth the wait. A thing of beauty and still the best paint I’ve ever seen on a MTB.

I think my first SS was this Inbred:

And I had this before the spot

But the lacquer fell off it and Brant took it back.

I remember when SS stopped for me. Riding two laps of cwmcarn with @watty of this parish (also a SS’r at the time) in the rain. Second lap, I just thought why am I putting myself through this?

I then wrote an article for STW called “Gears and Suspension are a victimless crime” and took a bit of heat for it BITD 🙂