The Single Speed Thread - Show Us Your Bike

MVink · *by **MVink** on Wed 5/Jul/06 2:43pm*

Looking good Ethan. How much did it cost you to build it up?

porschenut · *by **porschenut** on Wed 5/Jul/06 2:48pm*

nice work, but 10 hours??? you could strip and rebuild two bikes in that time easily...

Did the bikes require a lot of overhauling?

mundi · *by **mundi** on Wed 5/Jul/06 2:48pm*

Very nice clean lines on the first light blue one.
Must get around to building up my SS

fraserb · *by **fraserb** on Wed 5/Jul/06 2:49pm*

look good

but watch those forward facing dropouts :paranoid:

when the wheel slips in the dropout it is extremely spectacular. make sure the QR is very very tight

squished_cat · *by **squished_cat** on Wed 5/Jul/06 2:51pm*

Those seat angles scare me.

ethbole · *by **ethbole** on Wed 5/Jul/06 3:02pm*

squished_cat wrote: Those seat angles scare me.

Theyre massif roadie angle thing stuff. It's pretty wack but doesnt feel half bad.
Yea it took ten hours because we kept running into issues and figuring out how to get past them, especially with the brakes and wheels. They basically needed a hell of a lot of work, and we pissed around alot (drinking coke and V and listening to Tool lol).

Mike, cost around $75 odd to get it running: most of which was the paint and the chain and cleats.

Johns cost around $55 to date, but still needs paint and some other minor things.

MVink · *by **MVink** on Wed 5/Jul/06 3:06pm*

ethbole wrote:
squished_cat wrote: Those seat angles scare me.

Mike, cost around $75 odd to get it running: most of which was the paint and the chain and cleats.

Johns cost around $55 to date, but still needs paint and some other minor things.

I might look at building one up then. :thumbsup:

ethbole · *by **ethbole** on Wed 5/Jul/06 3:09pm*

You should turn your Kona beast into one! Then come for rides with us!

MVink · *by **MVink** on Wed 5/Jul/06 3:18pm*

ethbole wrote: You should turn your Kona beast into one! Then come for rides with us!

My kula? Uh, no. Anyway I've got enough spare shit lying round I could probly make a couple. There's nothing else to do while the weather is shit, so why not.

LouisD · *by **LouisD** on Wed 5/Jul/06 5:22pm*

How much did you pay for just the bike Ethan?

ethbole · *by **ethbole** on Wed 5/Jul/06 5:48pm*

Nothin! Well it was mum's old roadie, then I adopted it. Go to the dump and find one, theres heaps of half decent bikes there.

LouisD · *by **LouisD** on Wed 5/Jul/06 5:50pm*

YFY I am going to make a single speed

VERT · *by **VERT** on Thu 6/Jul/06 6:50pm*

finally got my decals made up for my frame, this has been a work in progress and is paying off. Have also attached a pic of what it used to look like when i 1st got the frame.

Thanks goes out to Kah with help with the decals