Sorcerer

Single speeding is really where it's at for me. But it wasn't always that way.

But I don't look at bikes and try to interpret them as a single speed. For one thing, full suspension bikes aren't candidates.

There are some suspension designs which can be converted, of course. I have had to restrain myself from obtaining URT frames and bikes that pivot concentric with the bottom bracket and soft tails which flex at the chain stays.

I bet they are fun to ride. Still,.I have to pass, telling myself that having one dedicated full suspension bike in the stable is enough.

I just passed up on a great deal on a track bike. I've only tried fixed for a couple of weeks, and I liked it, but I was riding it on dirt. I think a track bike for street commutes would be a blast. Still I had to pass, because I don't have enough room for more bikes, nor should I be spending on another bike project, albeit one that's complete.

There's a sticker on my bike rack. It says "pedaligamist".

I have 4 SS mountain bikes. Each one vastly different from the other. All I really need is one. But four is better!

I've got a fat bike I use for bike camping, and I'd never think of making a single speed.

I'm tempted to make one MTB bike into a street geared fixed via flip flop hub already on it. But I probably won't.
won't.

There's a gravelly bike in the stable too. It can take fenders, so it'll be in-service this winter.

We've a tandem road bike too. We really don't ride it much like we used to. But it's a keeper. No way I'd think about making that a single speed.

But once many years ago we saw a Steve Potts single speed tandem MTB for sale for cheap at a bike swap. That was long before my wife and I became single speed mountain bike fanatics. We were using tandems for touring back then. And whole we were mostly trail riders, we didn't see the appeal of a tandem SS MTB.

​​​​​​Nowadays I could see is doing that. It would be a lot of hike a bike.

We did eventually get a MTB tandem. It was a novelty. The frame eventually broke and it hangs in the garage on the wall. It was geared and full suspension. It was pretty.

When I think of a full suspension single speed I get the feeling that for most of the time, I would be better off on a hard tail. Only one of my SS bikes has a suspension fork. That's the one i take to chunkier rides.

Yeah I've got single speed-itis.