Your very first Single speed

Photo’s please.

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

I had one of these when I was about 9…

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

Same forks. Spension.

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Loving the gold.

Another Raleigh. 🙂

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

‘Get Cycling Right’

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

GCR

1st
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Mine wasn’t quite as chopper-cool, but it was a lot like this:

I had one of these…

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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Fedw Wood – 15th April 2007[/url] by 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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IMAG0245[/url] by Rick T.[/url], on Flickr

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

Hercules something or other back in the early sixties.

MK 1 & the same colour too……….

& 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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sswc simonbarnes[/url] by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

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

and in its natural habitat..

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).

Does the job.

94 Rockhopper, I have no pics of it though.