SSCX Only!

i actually thought sscx was a meme, sort of like bike polo, till i saw the relevant threads here with people being earnest

Pompetamine was good, I never raced one but I know @andyp did.

There was talk of an all singing dancing pomp v4 or v5 that was ss and disc. AND 100 RAD

Something in me feels like I watched a race that involved bottles some time ago, maybe my imagination

Also possibly raced with a bottle myself 😅

I didn’t. I rode it to work and back a few times and hated it so much I sold it.

UCI american race.

Oh yeah it was allowed because of the heat?

yeah, its all too rare, but thanks anyway! Current thought is £400 + custom build wheels to go on the 135 Pompino or give it up and put the cash towards a new bike. Old school cool vs Marketing bling, basically. If i go the former route I'll a great set of wheels but they'll have no resale value, except perhaps on this thread!

I thought sscx was getting more popular in the last 10 years.
I have a spare SS 135mm spaced (Rim brake) wheel from a Day One if anyone needs.

I'll build you some nice wheels for less than that!

Hope ss rear or a nice freewheel hub, whatever up front (I have a couple XT centrelock hubs that would futureproof you) Kinlin xr22 or equiv, gonna be a lot less than £400.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b62ueUISMKY

Waterloo world cup, 2018. Toon Aerts won without a bottle though so...

And they look a bit meh.
Race a bit and commute so it needs to do both.
day one seems only vaguely budget option and just sell the bits on it I don’t need I guess

Actually it seems it’s genesis flyer now is the main single speed option. Day one seems to have hub gear confusingly for the name.

As others have said sscx is a niche category.

Sounds like what you want is a pompetamine, or trimmed down Day One, all the other options are even more niche. But do come up. Fizzy has an SS Crockett which is the nuclear option in terms of baller "off the shelf" sscx.

For me a commuter (mudguards, maybe a rack, durable enough to leave at work) isn't really in the same category as race bike, but a pompetamine could do it, at a stretch.

I reckon Day One fits the bill, it's the bike I started racing on about 10 years ago. That was the rim brake version mind.

No I agree, it’d be ideal to have two bikes but no space, and my commute is basically a cx course for the first half so I’d end up with two very similar bikes!

Get yourself a transition rapture.

Cc/Straggler?

The "problem" with a tensioner is that it could get ripped off.

Position it pushing the chain up rather than down and it’s still totally out the way

Don’t seem to do it anymore? This seems to be the problem with a lot of these good frames- they obviously don’t sell so they only last a couple of years

The Trek Crockett lost the sliding dropouts in the 2020 model as well. my LBS was able to get a 2019 though

ctually it seems it’s genesis flyer now is the main single speed option.

Needs a bigger triangle, me thinks.

Bigger triangle?

Geometry.
It'll make the bike longer and lower. I think.