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Took the Singular 29er out for its first real ride yesterday. Very pleased, extremely fun to ride, and much more agile than i had expected.
Gearing was on point, tire combo felt great, love the feel of the cockpit.
Two things that need improving.
1) Dropped the chain 3 or 4 times, usually descending rough stuff on the low end of the cassette (ie, slack chain). Need a Narrow wide. 5 arm 94bcd's seem to only be made by wolftooth, and cost a lot..
2) Fork dropout orientation. I talked to Sam at Singular Cycles about it and he said that my swift is one of the first generations, and therefore has the dropouts facing downwards. The problem with this is when i brake hard on the front wheel (nose pivot/ stoppie), the axle on the disc side shifts a little bit, making the disk rub pretty bad, even with the QR clamped as hard as possible. I tried switching to a different quickrelease, which helped a bit, but i can still get it to budge. They have since been changed to forward facing dropouts (and increase tire clearance), so i may invest in a new one.
This explains it quite well, showing forward facing dropouts.
This is what my current fork has
