{"id":434,"date":"2013-01-07T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-01-07T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T07:09:29","slug":"single-speed-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Single Speed finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally finished the single speed bike over the Christmas\/New Year period &#8211; I recon it looks pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to building motorbikes and motor-scooters it takes much less time, in fact, took me just a day to assemble once all the parts where to hand.  The stripping of the frame of paint took many hours and was a real pain.<\/p>\n<p>Have done around 150km on it so far over 4 outings. It rides well, very quiet but boy does it make you work on the hills!<\/p>\n<p>Gear ratio I used is 46:17 which is pretty comfortable for me so far.<\/p>\n<p>Some technicals specs of the bike&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Frame:<\/strong> Giant Cadex CFR-1 from the early 1990&#8217;s. Lugged carbon stripped to bare carbon and alumium and then clear coated in two-pack.<br \/>\n<strong>Saddle and post:<\/strong> Look Carbon post, Selle Italia Flite Gel<br \/>\n<strong>Rear Wheel:<\/strong> White Industries Eno Eccentric Hub, DT Spokes, Velocity Deep-V rim, 17T White Industries freewheel<br \/>\n<strong>Bottom Bracket etc:<\/strong> Shimano Dura-Ace 7700 Bottom Braket and cranks.  Fyxomatosis 46T chain ring, Izumi Chain<br \/>\n<strong>Bars and Stem:<\/strong> Fyxation Rodeo Pursuit Bar, old Ritchey stem I had laying around, Cane Creek brake leavers.<br \/>\n<strong>Front Wheel:<\/strong> Shimano off my existing road bike till I decide what to do up front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?attachment_id=435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bike_done-1024x841.jpg\" alt=\"Single Speed\" width=\"620\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bike_done-1024x841.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bike_done-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bike_done.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally finished the single speed bike over the Christmas\/New Year period &#8211; I recon it looks pretty good. Compared to building motorbikes and motor-scooters it takes much less time, in fact, took me just a day to assemble once all the parts where to hand. The stripping of the frame of paint took many hours &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single Speed finished&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}