Full rigid single speed…..?

mine resting in snow

they’ve all been mine resting at a trail mincer haven

my silly light bike trying not to float away

Tazzy & crew, rocking up at Swinno’s for the “Ladies Ride & Beginners” event I see.

Singlespeeds deserve to be rigid! I ride mine everywhere there’s no hills!

Even more inspiration folks !

Will take mine up the hill today and get some snow/slush/ice pics

You mean that there are other types of bikes?

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vortex racing, what is that? It’s proper gurt lush..

Spin – Member
Why not finish the job and make it a fixie with just a front brake?

Ahem….

Simon – super cool to bring a ss to places like that, must be really hard..

Both get ridden up/down/along back-country greenlanes in South Devon, in the woods, over bits of Southern Dartmoor …

(Any odd looking wheel size / asymmetry [per-bike] is purely down to my camera being perceptively-challenged).

After years of gears and suspension the lack of faffing is lovely..
Used for local 15-25 mile 50/50 on/off road rides 2/4 times a week.

My SS has 85mm forks on it?

Can I hang at the back of you lot being tolerated rather than accepted?

OCB – that wasn’t your Gryphon at Haldon yesterday was it?

My SS has 85mm forks on it?

Can I hang at the back of you lot being tolerated rather than accepted?

Time for the old classic…

mission successful – haven’t cranked out the sadlle that hard for years 😯

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I put in 33 miles on my rigid SS today, first time I’ve done any natural stuff without suspension since the late nineties.

Wasn’t as bad as I thought to be honest.

anywhere, everywhere…………

I was wondering if I could fit a fat tyre in my carbon on one fork…….?

Clink – Member

OCB – that wasn’t your Gryphon at Haldon yesterday was it?

No, not mine Clink … tho’ Haldon is only a little up the road from me.

They’ll be about I guess, but I’ve not heard of any others locally (but then I am a surly curmudgeon, with a tramps beard and a tendency for slightly unusual bicycles, and share the road amongst a herd of anonymous, anodyne carbon road bikes, so few enough cycling people speak to me anyway).

😉

Flashes’ Sunn Bmix.. love it. Always wanted one of those.

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It doesn’t often go out like this, but comes home the next day in a mess when it does.

the_lecht_rocks – Member
I was wondering if I could fit a fat tyre in my carbon on one fork…….?

Tried it – doesn’t fit, even with a narrow rim.

Don’t know about the newer fancy shape forks though.

Built this up for endurance races, bike packing and general hooning around. Smidge over 19lbs in current spec.

It’s a Kinesis FF29 with their IX forks.

Fast as a very fast thing on speed.

vortex racing, what is that? It’s proper gurt lush..

it’s a 16″ 2007 Kona Unit with Salsa Cromoto Forks.

I had it resprayed a couple of weeks ago

here is the original thread

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/kona-unit-resprayed-and-fettled-piccies

This is my do it all bike mtb…..or that should be only bike mtb. Chain tensioner has now gone as I’ve changed the drop outs. Love it.

Captain & jezandu….. Bikes look sweeeeet… Id love a ss….maybe try to cobble one together for next winter. 🙂

Jameso.
Please contact me, my mate now has the bike but will be selling most of it soon………..

will do..

Surrey Hills

^^ Wheres the swift gone??

Stripped to build that, in the shed at the mo, want it?

& I have a Dialled Love/Hate that needs a good home some time. Medium I think it is, leastways I am and it fit me! http://www.dialledbikes.com/products/mtb/love-hate.php

Medium too small for me fella, cheers anyway…Still a bit “swift” curious tho 😕

The L/H would be too then.

Nowt wrong with the Swift but the Selma came up and it was too good to let go. Light as a very light thing, fast enough that I come from a ride in bits.

Keywords for the Swift btw are “value” and “versatile”.

I believe the guy who won the Brass Monkeys (winter Gorrick) series did it on an SS rigid Swift. But if I wanted a bike to trek through South America, it could do that too.

Very true Matt, but then again my ‘bred ticks all of those boxes too…hmmm dilemmas 😕

26″

29er

Botyh custom, both fantastic, both silly light for steel

@fenred For sure, a riding buddy has a new 29er Inbred, the geometry is near identical to the Swift (& he put a Swift fork on it).

swift is far nice than an inbread though..on-ones have that gopping rear end that looks like a kid in leg callipers has been pushed down the stairs.

Matt/tazz – aesthetics aside can you quantify/describe ride ‘feel’ between swift/inbred? *i know, difficult to articulate*

having ridden both the swift just feels more….well….”lively” for want of a better word. I liked my on-ones but they were all a bit flat. Interesting as the old niner SIR 9 had a very similar geo but was an awesomely better ride than both. about 400 quid better, probably not but definitely better