[Closed] Show me your Swifts.

No one, seriously?

Good luck, this place used to be awash with threads full of nice steel frame builds, rigid and hardtail, but hardly ever see them any more.

Frames have got a lot more expensive, so less N+1 going on I think, plus 'gravel' has happened and a lot of the same people are on that type of bike I think, and finally, everyone seems to have gone moar endyooro - longer, slacker, lower etc

I've got one. Single speed. Hope wheels, fatbar, going rigid next week as it is being retired from no 1 bike. Lovely bike, expect to keep coming back to it. No photos on phone though.

Core is right - 29er steel is now gravel....

29er steel is now gravel....

Oh well, I'm still well out of date then (and I'm still 3x9). I did consider a 'proper' gravel bike but I'm not too hung up of minimum weight/maximum speed; I reckon I'll be more that happy with a more utility like Swift.

Some of the steel gravel bike framesets I looked at weighed about the same as the Swift anyway

The closest I have to a Swift is my single speed Rooster. Brilliant bike! Trying to post a pic but it doesn't want to play...

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Dave (on the left) Steve and Dave.

I love my Swift and will be riding it on the Bearbones 200 this weekend. I have a Surly Krampus fork on it to allow me to run a 3in tyre, which really helps with comfort and control on the downs. Other highlights include Alpkit Fumanchu bar (like a Jones loop bar), 3x9 gears and generally non-fancy finishing kit.

I did try 'gravelling' mine with cx tyres and it was fine - but then I got a cx bike.

Enjoy yours, OP. Swifts are ace.

Not quite a dropbar Swift, but the general configuration is the same.

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Where are all the cheap left over steel 29er frames then?

Here you go

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Gryphon not a swift.
And my 40th birthday to myself
Was previously in SS build, but since I also have a Ti29er SS it wasnt getting much use, so now a 'hoffed utility/pub/touring/gravel bike using a redundant rohloff wheel I had in the shed. 2.35" big apples, it rolls like a fat lad in a half pipe. A tank of a bike.

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it rolls like a fat lad in a half pipe

😀

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Currently being reconstructed as a singlespeed for winter duty, hope wheels, rs7 uno, just need a set of cheap elixir 5 or 7 to get it finished

qwerty - Member

it rolls like a fat lad in a half pipe

😀 x2

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A bit out of date but I can't work out how to share from Flickr anymore.......

I can't post pics but I've got an original blue-framed Swift setup almost identical to Shackletom's above (rigid SS). The best MTB I've ever owned and if it ever breaks then I would buy one of the new frames in a heartbeat.

it rolls like a fat lad in a half pipe

😆

Good luck, this place used to be awash with threads full of nice steel frame builds, rigid and hardtail, but hardly ever see them any more.

Frames have got a lot more expensive, so less N+1 going on I think, plus 'gravel' has happened and a lot of the same people are on that type of bike I think, and finally, everyone seems to have gone moar endyooro - longer, slacker, lower etc

Or alternatively, the people who are still enjoying the heck out of their nice, steel rigid/ht builds with straight steerers and 100/135mm hubs have probably realised that 3, 5, 9+ years on, a 12th "Update: still enjoying my Swift" thread isn't going to add as much to the discussion as some chat on newer, longer, fantakkererr stuff.

However! Here's my wife's Swift and my Dekerf. We're both still enjoying the heck out of them. I take the Swift out for an occasional "safety check", which isn't too much of a hardship! 😀

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Gone now but Monstercross was my favourite incarnation!

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It's a Swift Jim but not as we know it:

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Its actually a Rooster but hey .... who cares 😆

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Had my Swift since 2008, and it's still my go to bike.
Did have gears on it for a while, but back to the singlespeed now.

Here's mine in half-fat mode...

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Mastered Flickr again now I'm back at a keyboard. Fitted a -1deg angleset since this photo. Works much better for 100mm suspension forks like this IMO.

Swift 😉

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Splendid, that's much better, thank you!

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I don't have any pics saved that I can link, but I have the version before last (I think?) in the cream colour.
Spec - original rigid forks, 1 x 11speed SLX and brakes, then a splurge of red Hope stuff - 29er XC Hoops, seat collar, headset - then Ritchey finishing kit.
I absolutely love it and won't get rid. It ain't light, but it rides like a dream and fits like a glove (6'5" on an XL).
I can see that 'gravel' might have taken over for someone after this sort of spec, but if you fancy one, buy it, it's superb.
Never seen a better looking bike either...apart from perhaps a Pace RC100 back in the day. Though I'm obviously biased.
Is Sam at Singular coming up with any new frames does anyone know?

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Now with a 29+ in the front (not a lot of room but it works OK) and a change of bars - rode it all last winter as everything else was FUBARed..... out on it yesterday too.

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And singlespeed.
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Had to take it to the Lakes when my Canyon died, obviously the Singular is indestructible so handled it fine.
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Sticks Pass was a wee bit rattle-y.
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In semi bike packing guise (day ride before last weekend's bivvi)
It came with 27.5+ wheels which I really enjoyed - this is an experiment with 29r set.
I'll see if I can find 27'5+ pics.

Not quite a birthday present but first new MTB I'd acquired in 18 years.

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MkI Swift (from 2011).
Tends to get used for crossing the moors rather than anything else, given that most of my photos of this bike are from up on the moors (in this case, the middle of August this year):
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I built it to occupy a fairly specific niche, so it's had very little done to it since building it (other than fitting a slightly shorter stem with a bit of rise). I am now debating adding a set of dynamo hub'd 650b+ wheels for it (as well), in which case I'll put it back to a 100mm OLN front end, but that's far from certain.

couple of simple 27.5+ pics.

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#threadkiller

@ RD the pic near the double yellow line. That is how it looks best imho. Lovely bike.

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Timely thread, just built mine back up in Singlespeed flavour ready for Winter.

lovely, Mark D!

Somewhere in the middle of Spain in may!
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In bikepacking mode, with Jones loop bars and 27.5+ Nobby Nics.

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