Come to the quiver, my dear
Yes, after not adding to my bike cellar for 18 months (I think the last one was my pink Bianchi singlespeed, oh, and we’ll come to the Klein ‘cross bike later, OK?) I suddenly have a couple of new additions to lug up and down the narrow stone staircase to my subterranean bike lair…
You know all about the Ibis, which is my long term test bike. But I’ve also secured the loan for a month or two of a Singular Swift 29er frame and forks. I first saw Sam from Singular riding his, with Brooks saddle, drop bars and leather bar tape, at the UK Singlespeed Champs and then again at the SSWC where I spent half a lap trying to keep up with him. I initially thought it was some high-zoot boutique frame he was riding, rather than an early version of a £360 frame/fork/EBB production job.
It’s very blue…
After dithering between the candy apple red, geared model and the ‘mainly singlespeed’ EBB frame in blue, I pitched for the EBB model. It still has a derailleur hanger and disc mounts and I intend on running it ‘anti-cliché’, which is to say, with gears. Not everyone who runs big wheels has to have it as a singlespeed, but you wouldn’t believe that from the few you see over here…
The Phil Wood EBB - a light and mirror polished thing of beauty. It’s a pity it’s doomed to spend its life out of sight…
Anyway, it’ll go together right after we get this issue to bed. Talking of which, I have work to do…
January 31st, 2007 at 4:27 pm
“The Phil Wood EBB - a light and mirror polished thing of beauty. It’s a pity it’s doomed to spend its life out of sight…”
They don’t stay shiny very long the outer surface that contacts the BB shell goes all matt, at the get full of burrs where the set screws eat into them.
Seems a bit of a shame really.