MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
The rear brake is incredible, and I bet there won't be too many in the race with a gorgeous tank like that, especially combined with drop bars! You know how to put em together, boss! Good luck on race day
Show me your single speeds!
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Nabeaquam
BoTM Winner
I built this bike many years ago, I dusted it off . The biggest concern is pinch flats.
fatchanceti
Dirt Disciple
Another of my mid 90's singlespeed Slingshots:
Nabeaquam
BoTM Winner
The race was a bust. I didn’t start, I got sick. It was a disappointment.
Oh shit, I'm sorry to hear that.
Nabeaquam
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Next year
2manyoranges
Old School Grand Master
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Well....yesterday was H O T
To avoid melting, I skulked in the workshop when I should have been cutting hedges - now....which would I prefer...oh I know...spannering.
Singlespeed 1
Genesis Day One...needed quite a few things sorting.
Cranks - easy.
Horrible heavy square taper BB out. Shimano 24 mm external, in.
Cheap road cranks off. XT Mtb with 48 ring, on.
Then...blo+dy nightmare five hours sorting TRP brakes.
Flat mount caliper supposed to fit on rear with a new bracket. IS front caliper goes fine on front.
But that rear just won't fit. No way. So I instal Shimano caliper. Horrible. Incompatible. No bite at all. Prob different piston diameters.
So....flat mount to front. Hurrah it fits. IS calliper to rear. Hurrah it fits. But bleeding procedure awful.
I can do Hope, Shimano and SRAM in my sleep. But these Hylex drop levers won't suck in oil from the Bleed Solutions funnel.
Swop to syringes. They won't push oil through easily at all.
I fiddle and push and pump the lever and fiddle and curse. The cursing seems to work along with random lever pumping and finally I get some proper resistance into the system. A bit of adjust at the rear...all good. Shim out the front calliper...all good.
Five hours.
Grief.
But powerful brakes, with overkill 180 on the front since that's all that will match with the caliper.
So it's nice to do the handle bar tape with well-discipled figures of eight over the levers, and anticlockwise wind on left, clockwise on right. Looks lovely. Brown synthetic leather. Goes with the tan wall Gravelkings which are a second blo=Dy nightmare to seal tubeless.
But......D O N E.
Today
H O T
Singlespeed 2
Great ride first thing...two hours' singletrack blasting in the cool of the forest.
Socialising pm.
Then evening fiddle with Grom's Charge Plug SS.
Perished and split rear tube out. New Conti inner in.
New chain and freewheel went on earlier in the summer.
Tugs are nicely adjusted.
A loose chain is a fast chain.
Nice.
To avoid melting, I skulked in the workshop when I should have been cutting hedges - now....which would I prefer...oh I know...spannering.
Singlespeed 1
Genesis Day One...needed quite a few things sorting.
Cranks - easy.
Horrible heavy square taper BB out. Shimano 24 mm external, in.
Cheap road cranks off. XT Mtb with 48 ring, on.
Then...blo+dy nightmare five hours sorting TRP brakes.
Flat mount caliper supposed to fit on rear with a new bracket. IS front caliper goes fine on front.
But that rear just won't fit. No way. So I instal Shimano caliper. Horrible. Incompatible. No bite at all. Prob different piston diameters.
So....flat mount to front. Hurrah it fits. IS calliper to rear. Hurrah it fits. But bleeding procedure awful.
I can do Hope, Shimano and SRAM in my sleep. But these Hylex drop levers won't suck in oil from the Bleed Solutions funnel.
Swop to syringes. They won't push oil through easily at all.
I fiddle and push and pump the lever and fiddle and curse. The cursing seems to work along with random lever pumping and finally I get some proper resistance into the system. A bit of adjust at the rear...all good. Shim out the front calliper...all good.
Five hours.
Grief.
But powerful brakes, with overkill 180 on the front since that's all that will match with the caliper.
So it's nice to do the handle bar tape with well-discipled figures of eight over the levers, and anticlockwise wind on left, clockwise on right. Looks lovely. Brown synthetic leather. Goes with the tan wall Gravelkings which are a second blo=Dy nightmare to seal tubeless.
But......D O N E.
Today
H O T
Singlespeed 2
Great ride first thing...two hours' singletrack blasting in the cool of the forest.
Socialising pm.
Then evening fiddle with Grom's Charge Plug SS.
Perished and split rear tube out. New Conti inner in.
New chain and freewheel went on earlier in the summer.
Tugs are nicely adjusted.
A loose chain is a fast chain.
Nice.
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
Interesting tension setup there. Could you please provide more information, maybe a close up picture?Here’s my skip rescue Zinn singlespeed. Got carried away with the build and ended up using some of my rarer trinkets on it
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