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Freak Of The Week

March 2, 2009

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In a kind of reverse of Singletrack Magazine’s ‘Bike P0rn’ feature, we present ‘Freak of the Week’ bikes…
And to start us off is a creation from Fred Williams’ Cycles. Given a few idle days and some sprockets, the mentalists there couldn’t resist seeing what they could come up with with a chain guide and an extra long chain…

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For more on the world of the unbalanced singlespeeder, have a look at the 1FGear website.

 

Apparently, there’s also a track version of this that has already done a few laps of the Manchester Velodrome under Rob Hayles. Suggestions on how exactly it works are welcome below (we reckon we’ve worked it out)… Enjoy your Monday.

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Chipps Chippendale

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With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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31 thoughts on “Freak Of The Week”

  2. So, you climb hills using your little hamstrings, and ride on the flat with your quads. I suppose it could be used for some muscle balance, if it wasn’t just mad……

  3. “So, you climb hills using your little hamstrings, and ride on the flat with your quads”

    Kent Peterson set his up the other way round.

  4. I have no idea what characteristics make a ‘just because we can’ idea actually worth building, but this is definitely approved of!

  6. “So, you climb hills using your little hamstrings, and ride on the flat with your quads”

    Hows that then? surely you push with your quads regardless of which direction you’re pedalling, it’s just that you’re leg angle will be different when pedalling backwards.

    If I had the time and a spare bike I’d give it a go. Just don’t try doing it with a cassette single speed adapter and two sprockets. It won’t work 😉

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  8. MrSmith says:
    March 2, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    there was one without a chain tensioner posted on the forum a couple of years ago.
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    Eh? How the hell would that work? 🙂

  11. Well I had a blast down the shop on this today & it’s cracking. The road version has 2 different ratios, MTB is 34:16 both ways due to chainstays….great fun…..cheers Jam.

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