The Single Speed Thread - Show Us Your Bike

[Monolith]

My commutard. Wish wellington wasnt so hilly fo riding fixie would actually be fun.

HTFU

[thorg]

[cmdr_keen]

Wow that was fast. If I was running fixie it would be brakeless, and Im not "hard" enough to ride through cars at the bottom of the terrace just yet...

[Monolith]

Admittedly, some hills are more exciting than others to descend brakeless, and the Terrace is right up there (Not because of the gradient, but because of the txis, pedestrians, delivery vehicles, etc...).

Running a front brake isn't a bad option at all IMO - in spite of the hardness factor.

[musket]

Terrace brakeless is asking for some lessons in evolution I reckon... way too many variables and the gradient and median limit your options.

I rode it a couple of times brakeless and nearly shat myself.

[shmoodiver]

chicken slayer got some mods, bullhorns and tt brakes, 48:17 and a campy lambda rim on the back to match the front. big drop on the stem is to make up for the fact it really is too big for me

[disoriented]

Terrace brakeless is asking for some lessons in evolution I reckon... way too many variables and the gradient and median limit your options.

I rode it a couple of times brakeless and nearly shat myself.

What side of the terrece are you talking about?

Going down towards Bowen St piece of piss, have done it at full noise before.

Going down towards Guznee ain't so smart. Would like to see some one take the blind coner at bottom at full noise, brakeless, and be able to tell the tail.

[SlackBoy]

It ain't so bad, tho I do tend to limit my speed on teh ghuznee side.

I also take it much easier down down into Aro from Karori now after I managed to make it all the way around the higher hairpin in a skid. I'm pretty sure I left a skid in my undies too.

[disoriented]

It ain't so bad, tho I do tend to limit my speed on teh ghuznee side.

But wheres the fun in that

[neels]

I had not much to do on Good Friday, so I decided I should singlespeed my bike.

Starting with an old crankset and application of cordless drill

And then application of angle grinder to make a spacer out of the dead big ring

One singlespeed crankset

Take one rooted cassette

Strip to one cog, cassette spacers and homemade spacer

Remove front derailleur, leave the back as a tensioner

And done

Test ride time tomorrow afternoon.

[shmoodiver]

shorten your chain up dude, i see slip happening at that lenght

[neels]

shorten your chain up dude, i see slip happening at that lenght

Yeah, wasn't too sure about that one, it's and old chain I took off when i converted it from 7 spd to 8 spd so I don't mind mucking about with it, I've still got a good one for it if I put it back to a 24spd.

[Datsane]

still waiting on hope hubs and niner carbons

What about the cranks?

yeah the cranks can go to, may be XT what are your thoughts

XT would go nice. Depends on how Bling you want to go.

[musket]

XT's are great, what I'm running - durable, available in 180mm, good bb's and easy to source parts and rings for. Not overpriced.

Otherwise, I'd consider some Hive FifteenG's. Bling, but limited to 32 or 34. Not a bad price. The hubs are polarising, but I like them a lot. The Hive are sponsoring the Soulcraft team in 09, so I'll be interested to hear Sean's opinion.

http://bythehive.com/?page_id=610/

[banga]

Can anyone reccomend a wide based(the wider the better) SS cog for me to get? I'm after a 18t for SS nationals?
I'll be getting a 32t ring also, so I guess salsa is okay?
I'm a total SS noob, so any advice appreciated, I'll be using my Chameleon frame, so has horizontal drop outs.