Single speed TT bike

Neiltemperature

There are plenty of fixed/single speed bikes out there but none found which are TT orientated any suggestions, happy to build up myself

JackPozzi

Basically looking at a pursuit frame and swapping the fork for one that'll take a front brake. Any idea of budget?

Neiltemperature

In the hundreds rather than thousands, the lack of groupset etc should make it fairly cost effective. Most of the local TTs are flat so gears mostly redundant

napoleond

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19703923#p19703923]Neiltemperature[/url] wrote:

In the hundreds rather than thousands, the lack of groupset etc should make it fairly cost effective. Most of the local TTs are flat so gears mostly redundant

umop3pisdn is the man to ask. Write a post on one of his bike threads. He uses a Planet X track frame (although he's building up a cervelo next year).

Monty Dog

Be prepared for a whole new world of pain! Used to use a track pursuit bike and fixed gear for TTs - fine for 10s, but once you get beyond 20 miles you're pretty well numb from the waist-down as you're pulling yourself down onto the saddle and don't tend to move around as much as geared.

napoleond

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19703946#p19703946]Monty Dog[/url] wrote:

Be prepared for a whole new world of pain! Used to use a track pursuit bike and fixed gear for TTs - fine for 10s, but once you get beyond 20 miles you're pretty well numb from the waist-down as you're pulling yourself down onto the saddle and don't tend to move around as much as geared.

Heh, Andy (umop3pisdn) did a 100 on his a weekend or so ago :shock:

timothyw

Is it not the case that most if not all TT frames have horizontal dropouts for optimum aero wheel positioning, and as such can be fairly easily adapted to single speed with a big axle and spacers on the rear wheel to get the right OLD?

And as such isn't it fairly easy to build one up yourself using eg a cheap ribble/planetx TT frame?

napoleond

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19704071#p19704071]TimothyW[/url] wrote:

Is it not the case that most if not all TT frames have horizontal dropouts for optimum aero wheel positioning, and as such can be fairly easily adapted to single speed with a big axle and spacers on the rear wheel to get the right OLD?

And as such isn't it fairly easy to build one up yourself using eg a cheap ribble/planetx TT frame?

Very much so!
In fact I know one guy who started using a cervelo TT bike as a single speed after the dropout broke.