Singular Cycles

So a thread for Singular Cycles which is a one man operation up in Hertfordshire ran by Sam Alison; for those of you don't know them they make awesome frames/bikes like these:

Sam is keen on starting to sell Falcon which is a prototype track frameset (Alu frame and Carbon forks).

He also has new projects in pipeline which you can see on his FB page e.g. this road stainless frame (£1200 for frameset with full carbon forks)

So go ahead share you Singular builds/stories/whatever here.

Always liked their CX the Kite, after I saw one being raced at the Rapha Supercross at AlleyPally in October:

Really nice bikes and Sam's a great bloke to deal with too!

I sold my Swift frameset last week as I decided it wasn't really for me, but it was a lovely looking thing.

^^ that is sam btw

^ could you explain why swift wasnt for you? (didnt you go with for something similar from Surly?)

I eventually decided that the surly suited me better, both in terms of fit and versatility. The Ogre has that little bit of extra stretch in the ETT that I require and I love all the different mounting options for racks & stuff.

Swift is far prettier though. Probably another reason it didn't suit me ;-)

Mustn't forget the Buzzard.

Which is on the sale atm

Yep. Exactly that same build by the looks of it.

I take it Singular use a lot of eccentric bbs? See a lot of them single speed in (what looks like) vertical dropouts. I'm really not a fan of the look of that - with the hanger sitting unused etc - but otherwise they look like nice frames.

I take it Singular use a lot of eccentric bbs?

yup

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Really nice bikes and Sam's a great bloke to deal with too!

And I've just remembered that he's 'on here' too.

ah, what ID?

Always liked their CX the Kite, after I saw one being raced at the Rapha Supercross at AlleyPally in October

I liked the fact it got a horizontal drop out, making it a great frame for singlespeed/geared.

http://www.lfgss.com/member12190.html

^ Though not especially active :-)

More often to be found over on the singletrack forum.

^^ that is sam btw

oh right! in that case he was pretty swift! (no pun intended)

All-time forum favourite (Tilover's):

^ Can't help but think of Smallfurry when I look at that build

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Agree. Needs a simple, clean and readable logo to compliment his lovely builds.
Like the show-through on this, nice touch:

Stock of certain sizes tends to be low or non existent. Been waiting for the Gryphon in Medium to come into stock for over a year. Yet to find anything similar with an EBB for the price.

@zouo

I had the same problem, and bought my M Gryphon from this web shop:

http://www.singlespeed.nl/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=36_79&products_id=496

service was excellent and shipment (to Italy) timely

Thanks. Looking into it now.

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