You get one speed only
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You get one speed only
This bike is fun to ride and it is funny when you try to shift and their isn’t any shifters.
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I'll keep my gears, thank you.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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One is enough.
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Nothing wrong with just one.
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One gear is just too lonely for my bikes......
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I had a single speed, you know, back in the 60s before I got my first ten speed.
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"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
I like this bike because it has 25 speeds:
North Vybe: Road Bike
I like this bike because it has 25 speeds:
North Vybe: Road Bike
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My bike has two gears, but they're both the same... so I never used the other one.
If you have more than two bikes, one of them should be a fixed gear.
If you have more than two bikes, one of them should be a fixed gear.
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One gear, but it's a good one. I've done several century rides on this bike:
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"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
I like this bike because it has 25 speeds:
North Vybe: Road Bike
I like this bike because it has 25 speeds:
North Vybe: Road Bike
How do they figure that out?
It seems to be one size fits all.
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SS can be fun but I live in CO. Being at a suboptimal gear 80% of the time isn't fun. Yep, one can do it, but there is no impetus to do so. I gave up the SS/FG thing 20 years ago. I would be tempted if ever going back to coastal FL though.
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If I ever went single speed, I want to be cable free with an old school coaster brake. Childhood memories on a bigger bike.
But honestly, I'd cheat and get a bike with a kickback hub or something.
Oh, who am I kidding. I don't have room in the garage and the wife would go nuts.
But honestly, I'd cheat and get a bike with a kickback hub or something.
Oh, who am I kidding. I don't have room in the garage and the wife would go nuts.
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One speed drive train , Planetary gears in hub & crankset .. hills constrain the river as it enters the sea here ..
tried a 1 speed , 71.5" gear , was not making me happy so I stripped it apart again..
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tried a 1 speed , 71.5" gear , was not making me happy so I stripped it apart again..
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I love fix gears. Heard about the 3-speed Sturmey-Archers 40+ years ago from the guru-to-be but got the impression they were not up to racing abuse and I was a racer. So it was 1 X 1 for decades. But I started justing for fix gears I could take into the hills as an older man so I had a frame built with a dropout long enough to run any 1/8" cog. Loved it, Next step was a real shop quality big chainwhip that attaches to the toptube and weighs 16 oz. Now I could leave the house with a 17,23 fix-fix wheel and carry a 12 tooth for the big descent. Heaven!
Later I took this one step further and set another bike up triple chainline; the 1/8" chainrings and 3 cogs, two on one side. For a trial run, I took this with that same chainwhip and a newly acquired 24 tooth on the Trask River Trail to the Oregon coast. 18% gravel both up and down.
JohnDThompson - sweet ride! I like the others here but that bike is special.
Ben
Later I took this one step further and set another bike up triple chainline; the 1/8" chainrings and 3 cogs, two on one side. For a trial run, I took this with that same chainwhip and a newly acquired 24 tooth on the Trask River Trail to the Oregon coast. 18% gravel both up and down.
JohnDThompson - sweet ride! I like the others here but that bike is special.
Ben
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Single speed and no suspension, I called mine "the bike of truth". (it's even orange)
I just changed my ridged single speed 29'er to an 11 x 1. I rode it SS for a few years, it's time for a change.
I just changed my ridged single speed 29'er to an 11 x 1. I rode it SS for a few years, it's time for a change.
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I have seen old photos of British village level time trial meets , they were using 3 speeds , ..
perhaps because the Derailleur was so French ..
perhaps because the Derailleur was so French ..
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