SSCX Only!

Bikepunx.com are making loads of nice steel bits in the UK, including BIG sprockets, shimano micro-spline compatible singlespeed sprockets and stainless chainring for most cranksets BCDS.

Their bits are really nice. ( 43T GRX BCD chainring in 3/32, on Sanded Grx Cranks)

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Bought this "on here" recently. So glad I did. Canti brakes clearly the devil's work, but that doesn't stop this being the most fun in my local woods. Cheap thrills at its best.

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whats wrong with the brakes ?! They're magnesium, thats like Kryptonite isn't it? or unobtanium.
My favoured method of stopping in the woods was to ride into a tree.

Haha. I probably just need to do some fettling but at the moment they're more effective as a bell than as any kind of retardation mechanism.

In all seriousness they do work but I've not ridden anything other than discs in a couple of years now so these need a little more forward thinking, which actually suits the whole nature of the bike. I really love it.

Worst case I'll use your tree technique.

I did think they looked better than they stopped .
To be fair they have hardly been used , so the pads are probably like concrete.

it looks great

I'd always heard brakes on CX bikes were mostly just there to slow you down, rather than stop you.

Or enable you to crash in slow motion so you get more time to savour it.

was tracklocross now sscx

Nice build! Your knees are rejoicing.

Before I magic gear my TCX is there a SS CX like the Nature Cross that I can get this year?

Be used for mostly commuting some coastal path bashing so 35mm discs, actual guard mounts a bonus but not a deal breaker.

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Pompino

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Can anyone recommend some wheels for SSCX use?

I'm the latest owner of @yetidamo 's Singlecross and after todays cold walk home I fancy some tubeless wheels.
Looking for something that'll run 38mm tyres happily, tubeless compatible rims and a flip/flop hub on the rear.

Any suggestions?

Ha, good to hear its getting some use. Even if traditional tyres/tubes have let you down.

The hubs on those wheels are (in my humble opinion) very good, so it might be worth rebuilding the hubs on something like the latest gen Open Pro rims which are tubeless. I'm using the latest open pro rims on my langster with tubeless Road tyres and they've been spot on. They do versions of the rim with or without a brake track so you can get some that will work nicely with the canti brakes.

As for off the peg tubeless singlespeed/fixed wheels, I'm really not sure what's out there. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can recommend something?

interesting question. I'd be keen to hear some answers in case i ever rebuild my pompino - same as above picture - in sscx instead of fixed

Merry SSCXmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFW6ju1owEI

my fixed gear now turned cross bike for the winter

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*answered my own question sorry.

That's very cool. What frame is it?

Thanks! It's a veloci (old street) frame, super versatile. Here's the pedal room link if you want to see it as a fixed gear: https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/veloci-old-street-sscx-45042

what are the V-brakes you describe as good with levers ? i am looking for a spare set to install road carbon wheels on my cx

@grm, agree with @yetidamo, there is very little out there off the peg. I've spent ages looking for (overthinking) the right tubeless rim/hub combo to fit my 135 OLD Pompino with wider CX tyres and sadly it all comes out at more than double the price of the bike build as custom seems to be the only way to go. So for what it's worth I'm looking at Kinlin rims (Hunt and Borg both use them) laced to Hope Trials hub on rear and Hope road on front. If i could build wheels I'd save myself a ton of money but i can't...

However IF using SS and not fixed, any 130mm road tubeless wheels can be used with a casette adpater a couple of spacers for 135 frames

Hang on, this is a revelation! Where do the spacers go? End of the axles? Please tell me more!