Hopefully this hasn't been done on this forum yet, I couldn't find a similar thread.
Anyway, I am new to the SS scene and getting totally hooked. I had a 6hour singletrack ride yesterday and loved it. Although it rained, was cold, had wet roots and rocks - it still rocked!
So, when getting a frame I had a hard time finding a "definite" gallery of different setups. Maybe this thread can become just that for future prospects and projects?
Here's my first SS bike - after 16years of mountainbiking.
Zion 853 EBB - 19"
Kelly Rigid fork - suspension corrected
Formula ORO 180/160.
Azonic CF-1 Bar
Titec RIP stem - 90mm
BBB Headset
Hadley/WTB Laserdisc XC front wheel
Hope XC/317 Rear
24-7 SS conversion kit. 16t.
Old 175mm LX cranks
UN73 XT Taper BB
Shimano 535pedals - old style
Intense System 4 front tire
Specialized Roll-X Rear tire
WTB Tubes
Syncros 32t Steel ring
Salsa Seatclamp
Thomson Masterpiece Seatpost
Odi Rogue grips
SDG Bel Air seat
Weights in (on a bad scale) at 10.8kg / 23.7lbs
I WILL cut the hoses
I am a certified bike whore and have had many. I am never satisfied and continually looking for that one that I can settle down with. Maybe I drink too much.
not the greatest picture, but...
KHS team Platnum OX tubing, not sure of the year
ENO hub w/ 3.1 tubless rim
Crossmax front
Truvativ SS 180mm cranks
Avid digit 7 brakes
Thomson stem and post
old Koobi seat
Atom 80 fork
I want a ride report on that zion frame. I am looking for my first ss specific frame, and want to go disc and you can't beat 300 shipped, post a ride report! Pics of my current conversion ss to follow! How big is your rear tire? An earlier post said the biggest that would fit is a 2.3 (tight) Sorry about the hijack, that is just the first zion I've seen posted.
Custom Geometry Spicer Ti EBB Disc Only Frame
Spicer Ti Rigid Fork
King Hset
Easton Post and Monkeylite Bar
XTR Cranks w/ Jericho Ring and Bash
XTR/DT/XM819 Wheels
XTR Discs with XT levers
my converted Jamis Durango SX
my Waltworks 29er EBB SS is getting her clothes right about now (at the powdercoater) so hopefully i will be posting the "blue bomber" before too long.
in the meantime, my old standby for the past 9 months:
- nice, heavy (4.85 lbs) aluminum frame - great geometry, though
- Marzocchi Marathon SL 85mm ('03 model)
- ubiquitous Chris King headset
- XT/717 disc wheelset with 2.4 Mutanoraptors (size matters)
- Avid BB-5's with Straightjackets (highly recommended)
- custom bent (read: crash; carefully straighten lever, crash again; carefully straighten other lever, repeat... ) Avid SD-7 levers.
- Monkey Lite XC risers with Rogue clamp on grips
- Bontrager stem (minus the really ugly stickers)
- Maxm carbon post (nice ride)
- Serfas saddle with Ti rails
- Truvative Stylo SS cranks, 180mm, 32t ring
- Gigapipe BB (not too happy with it)
- 18t Gusset'r steel cog and spacer kit(damn this thing is holding up!)
- KMC chain (great master link)
- Soulcraft Convert- set it and forget it. (quiet, too)
- Candy SLs
Here's my Slingshot after yesterday's race. I had a good showing going before I flatted halfway through. Anyhoo, its vintage '94 w/ an AMP F1 fork, M900 XTR canti's, levers and wheelset, Titec 118 Ti bars, Salsa stem and American Classic seatpost. Weighs 23.6 pounds as pictured.
I have been using the singulator in push down mode with no probs. However, i hate it when you ride off stuff and it bangs the chainstay. So i put it in push up mode. I will see how that goes tomorrow.
I have a few right now, 1st is the main SS ride a 29r Waltworks. I'm working on another custom SS soon to be revealed, the 2nd pic is my old Solo-One which is being cannibalised and sold off currently and 3rd is a new IRO I just built which needs a good home.
I want a ride report on that zion frame. I am looking for my first ss specific frame, and want to go disc and you can't beat 300 shipped, post a ride report! Pics of my current conversion ss to follow! How big is your rear tire? An earlier post said the biggest that would fit is a 2.3 (tight) Sorry about the hijack, that is just the first zion I've seen posted.
Here's mine. Rick Hunter 29" SS EBB.
Xtr bits here and there.
DT hubs
Avid Mech's
Wanting an H-bar for it.
Also have a CX-1 to mount up when wrists get sore.
Not terribly heavy, nor light by any means.
Going on four seasons on it now.
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1. I wanted to check out this SS thing. I converted a old Diamondback frame and rode it for a month.
2. I had been riding 29 inch wheels.
3. You cross the two. You get this, after a call to Brent:
Phil Wood Piss Off #28, 29er.
Phil Wood EBB and Hubs to match Chris King Headset.
Race Face Deus XC Xtype, 34t.
White Inds. 20t Freewheel.
Wipperman chain.
Mavic A719 rims.
Kenda Klaw tires.
Hayes HFX Carbon.
WTB Rocket Team saddle.
Cane Creek Thudbuster.
Race Face Low Riser Bar.
Thomson Elite Black Stem.
Cane Creek Ergo Bar Ends.
Eggbeaters Double Ti.
King Ti Cage.
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custom ti ebb/ss desalvo cycles 29er
walt works rigid fork (reba race on right now)
king & hadley bits
avid ultimate levers and bbdb (replaced xt/xtr system)
185/160mm galfer rotors
eno cranks and king cog
jones h-bar (replaced seven bar)
desalvo #2, a ss cx bike with paul comp dropouts, is at spectrum for paint.
i have been playing with the idea of a possible desalvo #3 for my bro, he is the same size as me and wants a 29er ss (for me, that's a bike i can keep in nor cal). maybe a steel creation, 29er ss with a pace rc31 fork and paul comp dropouts??? we'll have to wait and see!!!
My Bontrager Race Light currently running fixed thanks to an ENO eccentric hub.
Snapped these pictures this morning while out on my before work loop.
It was overcast and drizzly for the first 1200' of climbing but I was greeted with sunshine for the next 1000'.
Better than coffee to start the day. and I don't say that lightly!
My Bontrager Race Light currently running fixed thanks to an ENO eccentric hub.
Snapped these pictures this morning while out on my before work loop.
It was overcast and drizzly for the first 1200' of climbing but I was greeted with sunshine for the next 1000'.
Better than coffee to start the day. and I don't say that lightly!
I only rode the upper part of KB today, Wasn't sure what was going to happen with the weather and didn't want to be stuck way back in the Arroyo If the rain really started.
Not sure who/what zap is. Didn't see anybody at all on the mountain today - nice and quiet - just my tires and the dirt (and the occasional gasping for breath)
Sorry To De-Blingify this board but this is what hooked me (built it out of necessity to commute and not worry about getting stolen) I now have a Zion and a Reba U-Turn as the foundation of my new SS.
KB closed his Santa Cruz production facility in January '97. Trek continued to make the Privateer in Wisconson untill sometime in '99. Mine is a '96 Race Light.
Yet another black rigid 1x1. Since this pic was taken her tires have gotten fatter, her chainring has gotten greerer and her cranks have gotten White(Industries)er.
I am a certified bike whore and have had many. I am never satisfied and continually looking for that one that I can settle down with. Maybe I drink too much.
put that Fox Fork on that Dean and give monogamy a nice long, hard run.
'03 Cannondale 1FG
Avid Mechanical Discs
Cane Creek Barends
Chris King 18t cog
Ellie the Dog looking distracted
'78 Schwinn Cruiser
Mostly old parts laying around the garage
Specialized Strongarm II Cranks
Spot rear hub
v-brake bosses welded to chainstays
no name cro-moly fork
wow..some purdy, expensive rides up here
here's my entry...al ccm frame, with fabbed up horizontal dropouts
it's going through some changes right now (getting a disc mount, loosing the brake bosses, getting new wheels, cranks, brakes)
bianchi SS
tom's thumb elite seat post and stem
easterson carbon riser bar
wtd laser v stealth saddle
avnerd mechanical disc brakes
race pace cranks
nemo freewheel
wtb speed disc front hub, rims and spokes
spot rear hub
oury grips
shinamo spd poopy pedals
avnerd speed dial levers
hutchinson python tires (ahhhh, freedom)
burger king headset
This bike is happy because I ride it almost every day.
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The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
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Here's the first bike I ever built up. A Specialized M2 Stumpjumper, with a Kona Project 2 fork, and other bits and bobs. Trailworthy, though not quite as hardy as I might like it to be. Light as a feather, though.
This was built up in February. A Trek 950 that resembles very little of its original guise. Lugged steel frame and fork, new paint (really crap rattlecan job), moustache bars, big beefy street tires. This is a road-going bike, though the tires have proven that they can hold their own over hardpack dirt. Big gear for road riding.
Here is my Vulturized Dean Private I bought from Aosty (frame and other bits). Lots of fun on this one. This is my 3rd SS in less than 3 years.....it is an epidemic.
there you go, my SS'ers. previous to the redline i had an old brodie conversion, unfortunatly last fall on my way home from work somebody took exception to me being on the road and decided to hit me from behind.........oh well
Nevermind the hanger, she was born to singlespeed!
namaSSte, do you miss her yet?
**weeping openly** YES!!!!!!!! I usually just move on but that Blizz is one of the finest bikes Ive ever owned. In the end, the sale was the right thing to do. The Blizz would never have tolerated what Ive put the Chameleon through (lots of dj's and skatepark riding). I also wound up getting a (cough, cough) Litespeed geared roadbike. Man, that's like double bad.
Either way, she looks amazing! Like a hot ex wife or something....you know, its not yours but you'd still like to throw a leg over. Glad she's got a great home brother. Keep having fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1994 Fat Chance Buck Shaver (medium frame painted sapphire blue)
Tange Unicrown fork
Chris king no threadset with FF singlespeed cap
Ringle zooka stem (really need to swap this for a 10 degree model if I can ever find one)
Generic bullhorn bars with Cinelli gel tape and plugs carved from wine corks.
Avid brake levers and ultimate v-brakes
Syncros seatpost
Selle Italia Max Flite saddle
Tange 110 sealed BB (probably going to switch this to a 107 soon to get a better chainline)
Race Face Turbine LP 170mm Cranks
Syncros 32T chainring
Sachs chain
Specialized Ti crank bolts
Shimano SPD m520s
Wheels I built myself (28 hole mavic m231s, Wheelsmith DB14 spokes in black, Ringle sun of bubba front hub, WI eccentric 28H black eno rear hub, gold and blue nipples)
Control Tech Ti front skewer
WI ENO freewheel 19T
Oh yeah and brand new Onza porcupines all the way from England.
Got a wild hair (hare??) so I thought I'd try something different with my WI rear hub and put the gears ahh...uhh....back on my YBB where they belong.
Decided to bite the bullet & try a disc setup too, which ofcorse, led to a new wheel, which then led to a need for a fancy part-time boinger with a F80X.....BTW, thanks Senior~ Cebedo
No ride yet, but feels pretty solid...but anyone that rides with me knows I don't require "too" much structural integrity under me
Here goes, camera errr.......the operator, might not have things dialed in quite right!
Got a wild hair (hare??) so I thought I'd try something different with my WI rear hub and put the gears ahh...uhh....back on my YBB where they belong.
Decided to bite the bullet & try a disc setup too, which ofcorse, led to a new wheel, which then led to a need for a fancy part-time boinger with a F80X.....BTW, thanks Senior~ Cebedo
No ride yet, but feels pretty solid...but anyone that rides with me knows I don't require "too" much structural integrity under me
Here goes, camera errr.......the operator, might not have things dialed in quite right!
"Voodoo Binzango ala SS"
just great pics and a simply awesome bike...cheers
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Pics
Lizard piccy.
Anyhoo, its vintage '94 w/ an AMP F1 fork, M900 XTR canti's, levers and wheelset, Titec 118 Ti bars, Salsa stem and American Classic seatpost. Weighs 23.6 pounds as pictured.
I Love My Bike.
ahh...uhh....back on my YBB where they belong.
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