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Due to where i live, Norfolk, most of my riding is done from front door and linking up bits of bridleway and trails by road, so have always just ridden a singlespeed bike mostly.
Currently have a tired looking Singular Peregrine which i love, but frame is a bit knackered now...
Looking for frames that are easy to SS with "dangler for a knockaround, new Peregrine is £1k for frame and still seems to have the crazy top overlap, other options are Surly, Soma Wolverine, Bombtrack Arise etc...
Anyone think of anything else, i note Pinnacle don't do an SS Arkose anymore, Charge used to do an SS disc Plug, something along those lines...?
There's a size medium disc plug for sale in the UK Bike Parts facebook group...
Think Trek Crockett has sliding/swinging drops?
Thanks for that, will have a look at the Crockett and try that group..
Smokestone Mr Harry can come with sliding dropouts.... If titanium is within budget and you want propper big tyre capabilities.
Hmm... don't try too hard, I had a quick search and scroll through, it seems to have gone, sorry!
Mr Harry looks nice, but bit out of league as i have a geared ti Reilly Gradient already..
The pipedream one has sliders, I think
I’ve got a Pinnacle Arkose with an EBB. Think it was a gear hub version but I bought it as a frame/fork set from Evans.
It’s a Large and potentially for sale if you’ll fit it/interested.
Tim
Pipedream ALICE in classifieds...(large)
Singular Peregrine is steel? It would be relatively easy to get it repainted/powdercoated. Make it feel like a new bike.
Thanks both for Arkose and Alice, but large too big for me, i usually ride a medium and have t-rex proportion arms/ legs... both out of stock to buy new too it looks like.
Jonba, yep Peregrine is steel, and i wouldn't ever get fully rid of it as been great, but 13 years of being ridden all year round and it is very tired.
Trek Checkpoint also has an adjustable dropout.
The Crockett had sliding dropouts from 2017-2019 (I think!). The current model definitely doesn't have them.
Salsa Stormchaser is the one
Pipedream is due back in at the end of the year.
Assuming 'tired' is just referring to looks then I'd send the Singular to Argos for a paintjob. None of the above options are as nice.
Niner RLT has an ebb
Something with a PF30 bottome bracket and then use a Problem Solvers or Wheels Manufacturing eccentric?
That's what I've done with my Ti Kite (although I'm using gears on it now).
I use a WI eccentic hub on my fixed gravelly commuter. Bung it in any frame.
Mattsccm, does it work well?
I have always been drawn to EBB and have a couple of Singular, had a Stooge etc, i had forgotten about the WI hubs, thanks for that could be a good solution..
Excellent as far as I can tell. Done a few hundred miles only with it set as a fixed. Bought it second hand for 40 quid built into a 26" MTB wheel. Rebuilt it with 29er rim.
I have a Bombtrack Arise, bought as frame only. Lovely looking frame, really happy with it.
I'm on a transition rapture.
It has swinging dropouts.
They have not been made for a while so it would be second hand