Show me your…..singlespeed road bikes

Pub-bikes, SS bike porn, anything inbetween. Inspire me with your fixies / SS road machines.

Cheers,

This was my old one from when I was a courier. Custom made in Canada and used for razzing around Sydney. The only bike I regret getting rid of.

This is my current commuter. Nothing fancy, no frills, cheap as chips. It's got a rack now and black grips.

I have a white Genesis Flyer like this but with a set of DT RR1.2 rims instead of the Alex that came with it. It also has a set of Crud raceguards on it for those wet days I don't want to take my Cervelo out. It has covered hundreds of miles and been faultless. I keep thinking of selling it to help fund a new MTB but can't bring myself to get rid of it.

not technically a road one but it gets used on and off road 😉

No pics I'm afraid, but I've got a Genesis Skyline (like the flyer but with 'guards and rack mounts)
Full-length SKS guards and I've been using Midge bars on it. Had a bit of a drivetrain upgrade: Goldtec track hub, EAI 1/8" polished stainless steel cog, 1/8" stainless chain and Gerbhardt 1/8" track ring.
Will be selling it very soon. If anyone's interested, email is in my profile.

The Skyline has slightly more relaxed geometry than the Flyer. Ideal commuter / winter trainer. You should shift that very easily I reckon.

Holdsworth Equipe. Original bike given to me by a friend – it was his boyhood bike. I did the fixed build – photo'd the night it was finished.

Charge Plug Freestyler with Slice bars 😀

bit of a mix and match, based on a Viking frame with replacement coppi forks that were replacement for the old bent ones. it now has tan bartape and a tan charge spoon. used for riding to work but I did manchester to blackpool on it last yr in 3hrs. 48/16 gear that will soon be 49/16 because that chainring bent itself somehow

Another Plug…

This pair knocked up an easy-ish 85 miles yesterday, both running 53:16 🙂

like firestarter, not just a road bike

That chain looks even more sorry for itself than the toptube 🙁

Steve, your Charge looks awesome! I've wanted a Plug for ages, dunno if I'd get on with a road-style bike though as I don't like long top tubes/low bars :\

Thurman's bike is nice. Great bars.

Proper road bike was this, gone now, regretted selling.
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After that any number of pompino's have done lots of tarmac.

Penance Ultraniche SS69

Cobbled together from my attic for this year's SSUK.

Belt drive, magic ratio. Drum brake front, rear to be drum when I get the rim to match the front.

got a drop bar, sdg bel air, and sks guards fitted now.

i have a langster like samurai's too, and it rides better, tbh.

epicyclo that is the mutts, very nice.

That chain looks even more sorry for itself than the toptube

yeah chain sorted now, top tube doomed to look like that. One day Ill get an indy fab to replace it but until then this does the job very nicely

ss'd my LeMond Buenos aires, it was awesome ill try to find some pics

found pic of my old steamroller

and this was the lemon but pre ss
such a nice bike so sad i sold it 🙁

EDIT:ok sometimes my pics appear and sometimes they don't…

epicyclo.
Any close up pics of how you got the belt in the frame please?

Look here for pics [/url]of the belt drive conversion.

I have had one running on a Pompino for 18 months now.

cost me next to diddly squat to build.

old bike/frame found in bush.

self built wheels. the rest scavenged from other bikes.

Here are mine either side of my Love/Hate.

_tom_ – Member
Steve, your Charge looks awesome! I've wanted a Plug for ages, dunno if I'd get on with a road-style bike though as I don't like long top tubes/low bars

Cheers,

The top tube on a plug is pretty short per size, even with a 100mm stem and those bars it's shorter than my road bike, quite upright almost.

Go for it you'll love it

epicyclo.

Cut and shuttastic. 😀

Maybe I'll buy a cheap steel frame to try a similar thing on. Don't think I'll be sawing through one of my Ti frames though. 😉

Roughly how much were the belt and cogs?

Stu you could also do it with a S&S coupling if you can braze (or no someone who can).
http://www.sandsmachine.com/spec_ssc.htm

The top tube on a plug is pretty short per size, even with a 100mm stem and those bars it's shorter than my road bike, quite upright almost.

Yeah I've just looked at the geometry, looks like the medium is actually a little shorter than my trailstar!

Stu you could also do it with a S&S coupling if you can braze (or no someone who can).

Think I'd rather cut the dropout than the seat/chain stay.

I've seen the flat section on a Surly dropout cut and shut quite neatly.

Here's mine, Marin Lucas Valley frame, Halo Aerorage wheels and Avid V's. Needs a bigger chainring, which will be black and possibly allow me magic ratio 🙂

this is my old commute – it was an old British Eagle. Nicked from my back garden

my new one – an SE Lager with Mary bars – it's fun

My 531 fixie getting a rare airing down here in very hilly Devon a few weeks back…

simon1975 – Member
Stu you could also do it with a S&S coupling if you can braze

That's an expensive over-engineered way to do a simple job and no stronger than the simple job.

singlespeedstu – Member
…Roughly how much were the belt and cogs?

About 220 Euros all up from Nicolai in Germany

Ta.

This is mine but gets out rarely

Simon1975 – how do you get on with hills with that gear size or is it fairly flat where you are?

Hi Ed that'll probably be the only road ride I'll do this year! Nottingham to Skegness is very flat so it was perfect. It's usually 39:16 with cyclocross tyres (check my Flickr[/url]), and I can get up almost anything.

I got this from here about a year ago. It looked okay in the pics but every thing was very tired out in the real world. Not to worry

It was the frame I was after, the only things I haven't replaced are the bars.
I loves it. Fixed or free its all the same.

After I had given it some TLC.

Winterised and how it stands today.