English Bicycles: Project Right Singlespeed Road

As far as collaboration bikes are concerned, anything involving Geoff Mcfetridge is going to turn out stunning. This newest Beautiful Bicycle comes from English Cycles:

“Last year, Jason at Fairwheel bikes in Tucson approached me about building a frame for a customer who wanted a singlespeed road bike to have custom paint by artist Geoff McFetridge. Seemed simple enough. But then Jason had an idea about doing a single-sided frame…. Generally always being up for a design challenge, I said sure, and set about figuring out how I would do it.”

See more here and thanks for informing the world about this Tracko!

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  • Johno

    That is one sexy bicycle.

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=692410632 Finn E Zygowski

    i fear change.

  • Tommaso Gomez

    An interesting art project to hang on a wall – not a bicycle to ride on a road. It must flex like taco under pedaling loads. A traditional bicycle has two seatstays and two chainstays for a reason.

    • Rick S.

      If designed and engineered properly there really isn’t any reason this bike couldn’t be as stiff as any other bike. There have been quite a few high performance motorcycles with single side swing arms over the years.

      • Tommaso Gomez

        That’s true, but motorcycle swing arms are deliberately designed to have some lateral flex, to provide suspension when the bike leans in a curve. If you make a mono chainstay/seatstay stiff enough, it would be so much thicker and heavier than double chainstays/seatstays that the weight savings would be lost.

        • RF

          Ok, so then you have mono stays which are functionally the same as double stays (just as stiff, same weight). Why is that a problem? It may not be any better than dual stays, but it’s not any worse and looks super cool. I’d ride the hell out of it.

          • Tommaso Gomez

            It’s not an equal trade off – not even close. You’re losing vertical compliance by reinforcing the mono stays, and you still have a wheel mount that twists under load instead of just flexing up and down.

  • Romanlibbertz.com

    great colour

  • AJAustin

    usually when you post this type of stuff I pass over it but this bike is so cool on a number of levels I have to say I’m thoroughly impressed.

    • http://prollyisnotprobably.com John Watson

      I AM WINNING!

      • Charlie

  • http://www.facebook.com/wade.stevens Wade Stevens

    the brake cable routing is what blows me away, though I gotta think there’s a lotta’ drag with all those tight bends.  ripe for hydros.

    stellar bike

  • logan

    First thought was #WOAH

  • Dontcoast

    the headset/stem clamp being under the headtube took me a while to spot….crazy!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tuckman226 Tucker Cullum

    it’s hard to think about the whole bike at once, so many innovations

  • Joe64

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