The Single Speed Thread - Show Us Your Bike

[Datsane]

Nice work PBR

[Datsane]

Nice work PBR

[Trail]

Nice, that might be the first rigid with a Gravity Dropper I have seen

What is the frame?

Frame is a Curtlo (ex Nick K)

It may well be one ofthe first rigid bikes with a Gravity dropper, but I do love my dropper posts

Droppers are all good

I just got around to getting the Magura Raceline D hydraulic rim brakes set up on my 95 Blizzard. Must take a photo for y'all. Look pretty spanky with bright yellow brakes

Seatpost is a 26.8 tho... so I cannot fit a dropper post into there....

[NOMADCRAZY]

Seatpost is a 26.8 tho... so I cannot fit a dropper post into there.... [/quote]


FYI, Gravity Dropper do a 26.8 seapost.

[Trail]

Seatpost is a 26.8 tho... so I cannot fit a dropper post into there....

FYI, Gravity Dropper do a 26.8 seapost.

Yeh, but the spare one I have sitting in the shed is a 27.2

Shelling out for a new one would cost me a lot more than the entire bike has cost so far

[pushbikerider]

Seatpost is a 26.8 tho... so I cannot fit a dropper post into there....

FYI, Gravity Dropper do a 26.8 seapost.

Yeh, but the spare one I have sitting in the shed is a 27.2

That was why my DMR never had a dropper in it, as I couldn't justify the $$ for a dropper for it

[Jim]

Yellow bike, is Yellow

Now get it muddy.

[pushbikerider]

Yellow bike, is Yellow

Now get it muddy.

Yellow submarine is yellow

will get it muddy when I get home (in chch still) fly out silly early in the morning

[Trail]

Hey, so what do people recommend for a chain + chainring to run on a SS??

Because I had the parts in the shed there is currently a Sram 9 speed chain, a Deore 32 tooth chainring and a SS specific cog on the back, but i could easily be convinced to put something more suitable in the way of chain/chainring on.

Musket seems to think the MRP rings are goooood.

I don't care about sexy - I care about round. And those MRP rings are true as a true thing. It's noticeable how much better chain tension is and how much smoother they are pedalling than cheap rings.

[dented]

Hey, so what do people recommend for a chain + chainring to run on a SS??

Depends really. What you have already done, might be fine for the 'build a SS from bits out the parts bin' ethos. You could just run it till it fails if you want. Then again, if its bling you want, then by all means get some new stuff, Izumi track chain (in gold, naturally), MRP ring, or Surly if you like the idea of steel, or blackspire if you want to save some money, etc, etc. You might hear people say the Surly rings arent much cop, certainly a couple of failures have been documented in this very thread if Im not mistaken, but I have never had trouble with their chainrings. And then you can turn them around the other way when they get worn, and get double the lifespan from them.

[thorg]

x2 for surly (as an option, not saying they are the best). I have seen 1 that has failed, but that was when it only had 3 bolts holding it in, on a fixie, with a tall gear, and a 90kg + rider grinding up a hill.

[Datsane]

x2 for surly (as an option, not saying they are the best). I have seen 1 that has failed, but that was when it only had 3 bolts holding it in, on a fixie, with a tall gear, and a 90kg + rider grinding up a hill.

I had a surly ring until it died not a fault in the ring, first oops dropped a chain but it got caught on the ring under 90kg rider on pinch climb. The second was 2 days later a stick flicked up and got wedged between ring, chain, frame If I'd had a bash ring neither would have happened and it would still in all likely hood be running fine today.
At the moment I'm running a deore (steel) front ring with SS cog at the back , unless you have issues or want to change ratios its not worth swapping for SS front ring until what you have is worn/broke.

Chains KMC kool chain (or any of the SS ones) or Sram PC-1, I run both without any troubles.

[Butch]

I have a Salsa alloy ring. I was going to buy a Surly one, but this was cheaper, and lighter, so Ididn't really see the point. It's been working for 2 years, and I am quite fat. And hard on gear.

[Nick_K]

Hey, so what do people recommend for a chain + chainring to run on a SS??

Because I had the parts in the shed there is currently a Sram 9 speed chain, a Deore 32 tooth chainring and a SS specific cog on the back, but i could easily be convinced to put something more suitable in the way of chain/chainring on.

The Deore chainring you have will work fine. Won't look nice or last as well as a non ramped/pinned chainring but should work fine.

[ultraslowrider]

Just in case anyone cares. A free GT frame for pick up in Dunedin. Check the link.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... ermanent=0

Could make a radd old school single.