What single-speed ready frames are there?

Ziggy · May 6, 2009

I'm contemplating another SS bike, & as I'm starting from scratch I'd like to find something that doesn't require tensioners etc.

So far I'm aware of the following:
DMR Trailstar - horizontal dropouts
Voodoo Wanga - sliding dropouts
GT of some description with eccentric BB?
Kona unit?
On-one Inbred?
Sure there are some very nice expensive options, but I'm not looking to spend a fortune.

Ideally I'd like a disc mount, but I guess that's not essential.
Were there any retro options with horizontal dropouts?

barry2017 · May 6, 2009

Lots of retro options with horizontal dropouts. Why consider anything else?

I had a geared Inbred, nice bike but stuuuupidly long top tube for its size. The sliding dropout version is the only SS bike I'd entertain fitting a disc to, unless you fancy something with an eccentric BB.

velomaniac · May 6, 2009

Cotic Cycles, Dialled bikes, Singular Cycles, Dawes Edge One.
Numerous makes from the USA.
DeKerf from Canada

Alternatively get a White industries ENO Eccentric axled hub, thus any frame with vertical dropouts can be made into an SS without the need for a tensioner.

Charlie the bike monger is your man for such a hub or Hubjub, both on the net.

Ziggy · May 6, 2009

chris667":3bub20b4 said:
Lots of retro options with horizontal dropouts. Why consider anything else?

... such as? That's kinda the question I was asking!

velomaniac":3bub20b4 said:
Cotic Cycles, Dialled bikes, Singular Cycles, Dawes Edge One.
Numerous makes from the USA.
DeKerf from Canada

Alternatively get a White industries ENO Eccentric axled hub, thus any frame with vertical dropouts can be made into an SS without the need for a tensioner.

Charlie the bike monger is your man for such a hub or Hubjub, both on the net.

Thanks muchly - there's a few to keep an eye out for...

An Eno hub is an option, but I quite fancy trying hub gears at some point too.

kaiser · May 6, 2009

Surly
Sanderson
Charge

Alternatively a frame builder could fit some dropouts

ps saw a singular the other day and it was lovely

barry2017 · May 6, 2009

Most of them, before about 1990.

Muddy fox, Saracen and Puegeot all spring to mind.
Kaiser's right though, you could get the dropouts brazed on by anyone.

cannondale king · May 6, 2009

i like my unit from kona its the 05 model i thinks got from laundrymike for my clockwork frame

from what mike was saying and having a had no one to say otherwise and if they do im still not listening its the same geo and tube set as the explosive of the same year but with out any cable routes brazed on for gears and ss sliding dropouts

Harryburgundy · May 6, 2009

and of course...Evil DOC..fine frames :roll:

606 · May 6, 2009

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread11107.html List of SS MTB frames.

kaiser · May 6, 2009

606":1wz466cz said:
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread11107.html List of SS MTB frames.

theres a guy I recognise in there

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