To get back to basics and have a cheap and easy to run/maintain bike?

Fair point, and I have to say I think it looks fairly ghastly too. Flames? Originality bypass!

(Leaving the chain to rust in order to match the frame colour seems a bit extreme too)

Mmmm - building a SS as a cost saving measure - not sure that's really true for many people is it? More an excuse for yet another bike.

"Leaving the chain to rust in order to match the frame colour seems a bit extreme too"

Didn't you know it's the latest weight saving technique?

You save a couple of grams by not putting lube on and a little bit more as the rust flakes off while pedalling. ;o)

<i>Leaving the chain to rust in order to match the frame colour seems a bit extreme too</i>
No wonder you don't like the color if you think its brown and rusty? BTW the chain is a Scram PC7X track chain and it isn't rusty it comes that color ;-)

I think everyone has their own ideas of what SS'ing is to them. My idea started off as a cheap easy to maintain bike which is good for fitness and winter mud. It's still the same idea now but the cheap bit kinda fell by the wayside.

Personally I think it's ghastly , but if the guy is happy with it then that's great. And I'm certainly not going to knock the principle of fitting whatever you want to your own bike.

It's a matter of personal taste in the end. And if it really is a case of back to basics then why would someone powder coat a perfectly servicable frame purely to 'look a bit different'? Eh Steve? (a.k.a. Sir F.) ;)

And BTW, I really have caught your 'Bad Mojo'. I could hardly stay on at all last night :(

Well I like it - to me it is very aesthetically pleasing. I rid ea slidey myself and appreciate a good looking SS bike.

Just wish I could get mine as light as that!

I think its quite nice.

and I like the basic idea of SS. Unfortunatley for some though, SSing is nothing but an effort to be different and non-conformist which these days is sooooo conformist.

I would'nt call themall snobs or elitists but the bike style certainly seems to attract them.

To get back to basics and have a cheap and easy to run/maintain bike?

For some people yes. For others no. It's a bike, not a philosophy ;-)

Fair play to anyone who makes a bike as an individual statemnt. Mine says 'this man live in the middle of some very muddy countryside with a herd of cows using the bridlepath every day'. Pink really would not work.

I'm glad to see someone else has been dragged into the colour-matching trap! I'm like a magpie when it comes to things which have been anodized red... I just can't help myself.

Still have'nt got round to building that front brakeless SSer yet :0)

It's a bike, not a philosophy

There speaks a man fortunate enough to have never read a copy of Singletrack World! ;)

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*goes off to sell Marin and shave!!!!*

would look alright in black

I think your bike is fantastic. I love it .I enjoyed Sheldons company for a couple of laps at SSUK06 .I can assure everyone that although the bike is a "bling-thing" he does know how to ride it and what a passionate singlespeeder he is. If I had the cash to do it, I would build one the same (perhaps not the flames though!)

Thanks Carl, all the best for life in Oz;-)

I like it, the colour's are perhaps not my favourite but that's a very personal choice & TBH if someone wants to spend £4000 on a uber pimp SS then good for them :)
I love the Boone stuff its a work of art, a friend had a wedding ring made by him and its great.
I don't get the idea that SS is only to use cheap stuff & not be looked after, sure it won't need as much as a FS but by if you take that argument back a step that would mean you could only put expensive kit on FS bikes & hardtails would only be allowed LX, X7 level kit ;)

Rumbled by Derek!! And for that I curse you for the rest of your life with my mojo!! Even though the powder coat did only cost £45 all in. Far less than most of the components on the bike!?
And I do realise that many people use the SS as their main bike so apologise for my lack of thought! And the kit you put on is totally your choice! Thats one of the benefits of building from frame up (and down!)
But I also have to agree that the paint job is ghastly! and way too much colour coding (yes Derek I know my bikes are black and so are the components but ner, ner! easier to see whih bits i havent cleaned properly)

Nice decking. Fish look good too.