Conversion to single speed went smooth as……. and completed the first easy simple short ride last Sunday at Newcastleton with it all rigged up. Cheers to the chaps who helped me fit it all on Saturday night. Runs all lovely and while hills can be a bit of a pain it feels great on downhills when you have no gears skipping or derailleur to bash about. Think I might get a bigger front ring than the 32t as it doesn’t take long to get enough speed up to make it too fast to pedal.
Jul
31
Jul
24
Yes I have done it again and broken something else. This time it is my front shifter somehow I managed to snap it, part of the bottom section near the wee bit where the cable comes out just totally broke away after what could possibly be called a fall earlier this evening.
So screw gears I’m going to join the single speed fan club and see if it’s to my liking. Who knows how to set this up as I have no idea and will probably need some help.
Fun times 
Jul
7
As some of you may know I recently took apart my gears to put in a new cable, and rather than do it the simple way I destroyed the gear lever first to put it in before spending a few hours putting the whole thing back together again. Lesson No.1 learnt.
Well tonight I decided to see why my back brake was not working by taking it apart (doh!), all it needs is new brake pads but I managed to loose brake fluid while taking it all apart so it has prempted a slightly early brake bleed, which I haven’t finished yet as I have no spares and very few tools.
Maybe someone should write some HowTo things for this here site to stop any further blunders that I am bound to make.
Learning (the hard way) is fun
