single speed mountain bike

X-No-Archive: yes Hi

I notice dawes are doing a single speed bike. I understand for use on track.
http://www.dawescycles.com/bikes/edgeone.html

But as a mountain bike. As its not got suspension one could use it a commute bike in some parts of
the country.

Peter

 

On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:36:25 +0100, Peter Simons wrote:

> X-No-Archive: yes Hi
>
> I notice dawes are doing a single speed bike. I understand for use on track.
> http://www.dawescycles.com/bikes/edgeone.html
>
> But as a mountain bike. As its not got suspension one could use it a commute bike in some parts of
> the country.

Funnily enough, Sandy Morton mentioned single speed bikes to me on Saturday. Many of the public
would prefer to hire a single speed bike, without all the fiddly gears. And Cumbrae is quite flat
round the outside road. So maybe not such a bad idea really...