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Start Here
New here? A guided way into the bikes, people, rides, gearing math, and questionable reasoning behind single speeding. Not a required sequence, just a good place to begin.
Curated by Blake Cannon
You do not need to understand gear ratios, own a rigid steel bike, or hold strong opinions about chain tension to start reading. These pieces explain why people remove perfectly useful parts from their bicycles, how to build one that way on purpose, where to go ride it, and who else has made the same decision and stuck with it.
Read them in order if you want the full arc, or skip around. It is a suggested entry point, not a syllabus.
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One Gear Is Enough
A single speed cannot do everything a modern mountain bike can do. It can still give you the entire experience.
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So You Want to Build a Single Speed?
A practical guide to dropouts, chain tension, hubs, freewheels, gear ratios, crank length, and turning an innocent bicycle into a one-geared bad decision.
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The Single-Speed Gear Calculator
Gear inches, development, gain ratio, and speed at cadence: the gearing math that actually matters when you only have one gear to pick.
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The Ten Laws of Single Speeding
Ten tongue-in-cheek laws for anyone who has ever ridden one gear and called it enough.
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The Inbred That Started It
The cheap On-One frame and cobbled-together parts that started a single-speed habit.
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The Three-Mile South Table Loop
A short Golden loop with an immediately steep climb, rocky but approachable singletrack, and just enough trail for an after-work single-speed ride.
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Fixie Dave
The straight and narrow of fixed gear off-road.