Found an inbred frame with track ends...

Posted on Fri 24th, April 2015

• #1

sepulchrave

As title - uncovered F+F in a cellar. Cleaned it up and was ready to build it back up (had most parts with it) maybe as a little tourer...only to discover with dismay that it had track ends.
What use can a mountain bike be without gears? Is single speed mtb a thing? Should i give up on the idea of a tourer then? Am i missing something - any way to run gears?
cheers, apologies if stupid questions.
• #2

TvH

There's a whole thread of singlespeed MTBs.

Put a hub gear in it or sell it on and get a different frame if you want shifting
• #3

maro_donald

Most likely it is a DJ frame or styled as one. You could think of it as an overgrown BMX. There are xc folk as well who are into ss riding.
• #4

TM

You can use a bolt on/axle mount hanger
• #5

c00ps

Or hub gears?
• #6

dancing james

or HTFU and go single speed
• #7

sepulchrave

cheers. overgrown bmx sounds like fun actually.
• #8

Oswald in reply to @sepulchrave

The early Inbred was a single speed only cross country frame and used track ends. There was also a 853 limited run of that version of the frame.

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