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iv been thinking about going single speed and cant see any benifits, e.g. With gears you can go up and downhill, single speed you cant do either etc. etc.
are there any single speeders out there who can convince me?
It shite, don't bother.
What the fat singlespeeder up there ^^^ said.
I was on one today for a couple of hours. I went uphill and downhill and never got a frozen mech or any ghost shifting.
Shite troll by the way
big chief, your tom has done in the bath..
your turn now, then straight to bed for asking stupid questions... 🙄
there is at least one thread of this ilk every week!!!
i went for my 1st ss bike around 3 weeks ago, its ace for fitness and line choice, and is good fun/different. i dont really subscribe to the whole 'it doesnt need cleaning etc thing as i clean all of my bikes regularly anyway'
try it 1st and see if you like it.
See if you can borrow one for a couple of rides. They aren't for every one but also I think you have to give it a go.
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Didn't we do this last week?
It's cheap - thats my reason
if you do go for it and master it, beat it, crush it . . . . make it look easy . . .
Then what?
World domination, . . . . very dangerous game.
Stick to gears.
Nice try at a trolling 🙂
PErsonally I can get up hills (most) and down hills (most) with my SS.
I don't find 27 gears is enough - too many ratios but not enough spread 🙁
I've had my ss since I built it up in '98. Dunno why, it's cr@p. No gears or nothing.
sorry for the repeat of a post last week but i dont spend all my spare time on single track checking forums. I have coursework etc. to do.
although if i did have spare time..... i would mix it with riding and talking about riding 😀
singlespeeding is the truth! Do not be tempted by these other gear based ways of life, that way lies weedy un-manly thighs and madness.
If you use gears to make hills easier why not flatten them or straighten the wibblywobbly bits to make it easier too?
Come the church of singlespeed we will welcome you with open arms and a nice beer.
Once you are in the inner circle you will learn the screts of the universe or at least what the belly button fluff fairys' secret agenda is and how to build a life size doppleganger using nothing but dairy products.
Just don't touch your shifters for a week, and see if you feel it makes your life better
you can also ride any old tat and be "niche" 😀
coffeeking - Member
Nice try at a trollingPErsonally I can get up hills (most) and down hills (most) with my SS.
No, I get to the top of the hill and just don't know how to get back down.....
Normally have to resort to the downlift.
All about fitness
sorry for the repeat of a post last week
In that case perhaps use the search function before you repeat and age old and quite frankly dull troll.
Gears and suspension are for when you are old and frail.
If you don't see the point then don't bother, if you fancy it try it, if wonder...then find out, if you like it good, if you don't good.
Just ride!
Gears and suspension are for when you are old and frail.
What about middle aged and lardy.?
really...reallly....really ....what is the point of ss?
Bloody students-3/10 Better but lacks originality.
If you can't be arsed to find out for yourself I can't be arsed explaining it to you....so there.
I'm with the the stupids.
because gears dont work well on a bmx. thats why
Just home from a 27mile ride home on my single speed pompino
Bliss
[url= http://www.mapmyride.com/route/gb/belfast/432126393256562953 ]http://www.mapmyride.com/route/gb/belfast/432126393256562953[/url]
It's just another option on a bike.
Loved my bmx single speed as a kid went everywhere on it with pals on similar bikes.
is it really that time again?
sorry for the repeat of a post last week but i dont spend all my spare time on single track checking forums. I have coursework etc. to do.although if i did have spare time..... i would mix it with riding and talking about riding
a quick look at your profile says you've started 11 threads in about a week. no spare time at all then?
😉
Through suffering comes enlightenment. You either get it or you don't BUT it is no coincidence singlespeeders tend to be real men. Come to the Keilder 100 and watch us make geared boys cry as we beat them with our rigid ways
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If you don't get it you probably don't want to do it. Do something else. Everyone's happy 😉
If you don't get it you probably don't want to do it. Do something else. Everyone's happy 😉
epicyclo - Member
Gears and suspension are for when you are old and frail.
hes only 13 so hes got to work upto somthing... 
It works well here in suffolk/norfolk really well (deep mud and no monster hills near by) having one gear here is good in winter, As its harder to clog up one gear than a 8/9 speed drive. It does make you work harder if you want it too its marmite love/hate thing you ever like it and live it or hate it and curse it as. 😯
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fashion.
I'm a singlespeeder.
No, I cannot convince you.
post = FAIL
fashion?
HAVE YOU SEEN A SINGLE SPEED RIDER??
they normally look like geography teachers or the bloke from jethro tull, I'm sure the rigid forks will double up as a flute.
I always saw singlespeeders as 'look at me! look at MEEEEEEE!!!!' types. Much like 29ers and tandems. Basically all clown bikes.
Funny I always thought the "look at me" types are the fat boys on oingly boingly bikes in body armour at trail centres where they have an audience rather than ss riders who normally do their own thing. Isn't bias a funny thing 😀
Rolls out the singlespeed 29er tandem. 😛
coogan - well actually I was in that London today, and the sheer number of fakengers on fixies wearing their sister's jeans was astounding.
SS is great though, I ride mine far too much at the expense of geared bikes, but it's far more reliable and cheaper to repair when you break it.
a 29er singlespeed tandem!....bloody hell, that's two beards you need to keep out of a chainset.
bloody hell, that's two beards you need to keep out of a chainset.
The stoker does not own a beard. 😉
Make one up cheap as you can
If you like - build better
If you don't - no great shakes
I've been SS for about 6 years - selective rides
Horses for courses..................
Just do it - no point asking...... be your own man/boy/girl/woman (delete as needed)
I take it the stoker is a girlie then? Does she not even have a "lady beard" you know get em to do a handstand and see if a goatee suits you? 😀
Explosion in a spaghetti factory - soory, the beer is taking over the typing ...... i'll get me coat.
No worries tazzy.
It made her laugh anyway. 😆
Is it narrow minded social club night again already?
OMFG! 😳 remind me NOT to drink at the SSEC10!! I'll now be the one cunningly disguised as sir digby chicken ceaser. I should blend right in with all the other SS riders.
Maybe the OP should come to [url] http://www.ssec10.blogspot.com/ [/url]
And some of the [s]attentionwhores[/s] nice singlespeed folk will let you have a go on their one geared cycles.
It makes men out of boys [s]allegedly[/s]
singlespeeding- you hear strange things about it. Those that have singlespeeds seem strangley different.The first time singlespeed happens to you it feels so wrong, worrying and yet inevitable and apparently it makes men out of boys.
It's basically puberty with one gear.
KINGTUT - Membersorry for the repeat of a post last week
In that case perhaps use the search function before you repeat and age old and quite frankly dull troll.
I think Mr Kingtut you will find that practically all topics have been discussed before however not everyone with a user name skulks round on here waiting to poo poo any debate, mostly it's you.
Are you related to any of these two perchance?
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NO point in it I don't like it. Too hard up hill (granted if I was fitter it would be easier) and too spinny DH. It limits the fun I had on that bike its gears for me in the future.
Do singlespeeders frequent less hilly areas? Most of the rides round here involve a minimum of 1,000ft climb, often requiring the granny ring for my old and feeble legs. I just don't get the attraction of not being able to ride up stuff that gears make doable.
You do all realise that there is NO SUCH THING as a Singlespeed [b]MTB[/b]. When MTBs were invented they took a single-geared beach cruiser, [i]put gears on it[/i] and rode it into the mountains. Therefore there can be no point... 😉
[peepsfrombehindhands]..... Mummy, has the nasty troll gone away yet?[/peepsfrombehindhands]
I was thinking of getting an 8" travel full susser and some body armour to get rad at the trail centres but I coan't really see the point. Can someone convince me? 🙄
*rolls out fully rigid SS 29er*
Attention whores, assemble!!!
<<iv been thinking about going single speed and cant see any benifits>>
well if you can't see the benefits then why bother - spend more time riding
psling - Premier Member
You do all realise that there is NO SUCH THING as a Singlespeed MTB. When MTBs were invented they took a single-geared beach cruiser, put gears on it and rode it into the mountains. Therefore there can be no point...
In this country we were riding in the mountains on single speed, often fixed bikes, long before the Americans invented the idea.
So it's really a case that gears (and suspension) haven't caught on with some of us yet 🙂
If you're interested look at the Rough Stuff Fellowship history.
tazzymtb - Member
fashion?HAVE YOU SEEN A SINGLE SPEED RIDER??
they normally look like geography teachers or [b]the bloke from jethro tull[/b], I'm sure the rigid forks will double up as a flute.
I've taken my time searching through my kit box and seem have lost my singlespeeding codpiece. Have I left it in the pub, I wonder?
What's ss????
monkeychild - Member
What's ss????
According to google it's this:
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I believe he drives a german car, has a private plate and does something in IT.
[i]Most of the rides round here involve a minimum of 1,000ft climb,[/i]
I wouldn't even get out of bed for that sort of ride. All singlespeeders are riding gods, you're not allowed to ride SS until you're pure and strong enough to do it properly. And most people can't. There's a secret club and everything, but obviously normal people are oblivious to the fact, being a bit thick and all. Riding SS makes you smarter, stronger, sexier and above all else, better. There are bosses of huge corporations that are singlespeeders and they still let on to singlespeeders who are a bit shit, not that any are, all of us are hugely succesful, it comes with the turf. I have a million pounds in the bank but I come here to poke fun at people with gears, the stupid ****ers.
Dream on weak kneed, geared fuzzballs, you'll never be the men that we are so just kill yourselves. Sorry, got to go, two girls from the John Lewis perfume counter have just called by asking if they can give me head.
tazzymtb- you're not wrong. I love Tull and have a beard and long hair.
& Yes
& Genesis
& Van Der Graaf Generator
& Gentle Giant
& King Crimson
So unless you too are over 45, DON'T singlespeed!!!!
1000 ft of climb? Barely a warm up! Mind you there were quite a few folk on SS at teh 'puffer and many of them did better than me with my granny gears!
I guess tho that most SS riders don't go into the hills much. You certainly don't see SS riders very much in my local hills -and they are hills not mountains. Still a couple of thousand feet in a decent ride tho
Get a Rohloff.
It's like a singlespeed with gears.
Get a Rohloff.
It's like a singlespeed with gears.
So, not like a singlespeed at all then.