Single speed mountain bike

Unleash the adventure with a single speed mountain bike. Find the challenges, benefits, & myths surrounding this thrilling riding experience.

BMX style, affordable, and with 29×2.2″ slick tires, the Commencal Uptown MaxMax is made for the city. There are other Uptown models, but the MaxMax…

Santa Rosa - and all of NorCal for that matter - has a rich history with frame builders. From Eisentraut to Salsa, Sycip, and Retrotec, the names and faces of this little realm within the cycling industry have such great stories to tell. While I'm working on a few more posts from my recent trip to Santa Rosa, I thought I'd share this unique build with you. High in the rafters at Trail House hangs this 1990's Kostrikin rigid single speed mountain bike. These days, bikes like this are still…

A bike that's at home with 2.5" or 3" tires, that is curvalicious as a rigid, yet able to accept a suspension fork and sports a mean green coat of wet paint is about to be unleashed upon the singletrack of Ft. Collins thanks to Sklar Bikes. Scott's bike is looking great. See more at Sklar Bikes.

Rigid bikes. The roots of riding off-road, yet now the arena of weirdos, quacks, and masochists. Mountain biking started out long before telescoping forks and complex linkage designs, but the bikes of those early days are now a far cry from the activity most consider “mountain biking”. Of course, those weirdos, quacks, and masochists still have a place in this world, and it turns out I’m one of them. It wasn’t always this way. I used to ride and write about my experience with suspension…

Fancy a new challenge? Single-speed mountain bikes can transform those old trails into something new. We look at the good and bad of running such a bike

Frame: Inbred 29" medium Fork: Salsa CromotoGrande Headset: ChrisKing Steam: Syntace Superforce OS Handlebar: Chromag Fubar OSX Grips: Ergon GA1 Seatclamp: Hope Seatpost: Thomson Elite Seat: SelleItalia SLR (stripped) BB: Shimano Crankarms: Shimano SLX (de-eloxed) Chainring: Surly Steel 32t Chain: SRAM 8spd Cog: NoName 18t with Hope Spacers Pedals: Sixpack Icon Brakes: Avid BB7/ XT Levers/ Ripcord/ 2x 180mm Wheels: ChrisKing/ ZTR Flow/ Sapim CXRay on the front Hope Trials Hub/ Mavic t719/ DT…

Internal Drivetrain System

Most of you know I’m attracted to weirdos and eccentric people, so of course I love stopping by the BTCHN Bikes shop here in Chico to see what Tyler is welding on. He’s spent most of his life racing all types of motorcycles at insane speeds, and has been adapting the hyper-analytical engineering he’s learned in the motorized world into pedal-powered machines he pushes to equally scary speeds. He’s also one of the most enthusiastic people I’ve ever met, so imagine that he’s yelling and…

'93 Specialized Rockhopper with Schwalbe Super Moto