The winter Single Speed build is done.

[Zipp2001]

The hardest part was the wait for parts to come in, but that's over now. I turned my old Zipp2001 TT bike into a single speed, after I gave my other Zipp2001 single speed to my youngest son last year. But I wanted to be a tad different with this build and go with a gates carbon belt drive system. Looking forward to getting it out on a shakedown ride tomorrow.

 

[DCLane]

A little different to most people's winter bikes

 

[otherself]

A winter bike for the film blade runner.

 

[alpine fenlander]

That is pretty cool!
Would love to hear your experience with direct drive after a few months.

 

[Teamfixed]

Oh..... but how can you braze on the mudguard/rack eyes?

 

[Zipp2001]

That is pretty cool!
Would love to hear your experience with direct drive after a few months.

I'll let you know how the belt drive system is after I log some miles on it.

 

[T4tomo]

winter bike?
mudguards -tick
28mm plus tyres - tick
comfy riding position - tick


its beautiful its own monstrous interpretation of a bike kind of way!
I like the colour scheme.

 

[Milkfloat]

Is that a wrap or another new paint job?

 

[colly]

That's really good.
I think we would all like to know how the belt drive works out.
Mind you you don't have a seat stay to worry about so l guess fitting is easy.

 

[Zipp2001]

Is that a wrap or another new paint job?

New paint job.

 

[Zipp2001]

That's really good.
I think we would all like to know how the belt drive works out.
Mind you you don't have a seat stay to worry about so l guess fitting is easy.

I figured the Zipp2001 bike would be perfect for a belt drive system because of the frame design.

 

[colly]

I figured the Zipp2001 bike would be perfect for a belt drive system because of the frame design.

Perfect bike for a belt drive yes............who did the paint job ? It's a terrific finish. Very unusual.

 

[ColinJ]

I figured the Zipp2001 bike would be perfect for a belt drive system because of the frame design.

I was thinking that it would be interesting to try belt drive, but I hadn't thought about the frame issue!

(For those as thick as me - a belt is continuous and can't broken like a chain to thread it through normal chain/seatstays. That would normally mean an adapted frame design with a stay that could be separated to let a belt through. This bike's frame doesn't have the problem because of its unusual design.)

 

[Zipp2001]

Perfect bike for a belt drive yes............who did the paint job ? It's a terrific finish. Very unusual.

Hot Tube's has done all my paint jobs on my bikes, and they always exceed my exportations. This paint job is what they call a pearl bomb color shift paint job.