Why single speed?

[velomaniac]

Eccentric Bottom Bracket does not require a SS specific frame as some clever clogs has come up with a retrofit eccentric BB that is based around the original BB shell. Not cheap mind but i believe SJScycles stock them

 

[Agency_Scum]

Never mind the techno/physio stuff. You go slower and you don't think about gears; plenty of time to look at the trees+squirrels.

 

[Neil G]

Eccentric Bottom Bracket does not require a SS specific frame as some clever clogs has come up with a retrofit eccentric BB that is based around the original BB shell. Not cheap mind but i believe SJScycles stock them

Blimey, that must be one compact unit as the EBB shell on my Mongoose is pretty big!

 

[hamster]

Yes, but the disadvantage is that it doesn't have the nice long throw of a conventional eccentric such as on your Mongoose or a tandem.

It uses rotatable outboard bottom bearings, the spindle has the width of the BB shell as front-back adjustment. But you do end up with faffing extra links in and out invariably.

 

[IDB1]

Never mind the techno/physio stuff. You go slower and you don't think about gears; plenty of time to look at the trees+squirrels.

And that's sufficient for me... 43 years old and a bit bashed up from a (motor)bike crash...

I know the frame I want (hamster ), I'll build everything else around that, hopefully ready for next year...

Not been in the saddle for about 10 years so really would like to get a little bit of my confidence back..

 

[saltyman]

thats my way of thinking too

i much prefer going at my own pace rather than blasting around..........im only 30 but have been hit by cars, shattered kneecaps, fractured skull, cracked ribs and wrists broken fingers and toes.......i cant take it anymore :cry:

 

[Average Mark]

I found a SS faster to be honest. Less chance to be lazy.

 

[mikee]

+1 on that

especially down windy singletrack ,just point and shoot

but up hills too ,more momentum

tensioners work fine but the fixed ones are imo better
one like this works for me

there was a ghetto ebb page on the tinternet somewhare
using outboard bearing shells and different bearings
cant find link might be on me work computer

 

[Andy R]

It uses rotatable outboard bottom bearings, the spindle has the width of the BB shell as front-back adjustment. But you do end up with faffing extra links in and out invariably.

Hardly much faffing - you might need to fit a link-and-a-half and two master links instead of one - hmmm, maybe an extra thirty seconds then :roll: .

And you might do this with a "conventional" EBB anyway if you want to end up with the BB where you want it and not where the chain length dictates.

 

[MikeD]

What's this "link and a half"? I'm familiar with half-links, adding an extra one seems a bit unnecessary