Asclepius Project (On-One Ti29er Inbred Lynskey)
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Asclepius Project (On-One Ti29er Inbred Lynskey)
Merely documenting this for my own sakes for when I need to replace something
This is a small project for something I have been looking for for about three years and randomly popped up on eBay back in September, which I immediately hit the "
Buy It Now" button and worried about how I'd pay for it later
The Beginning
Five years ago I moved 15 or so miles from my place of work, where I'd used to run to work, I'd now have to cycle. What I found was that given enough time, something would let me down and my commute to work would be hindered.
One day on my way to work both of my bikes failed on me, if it wasn't an inner tube Blow Out, then it was the derailleur. My Dad had this original
Single Speed On One Inbredhung up in his garage for the past ~15 years. He generously donated me the bike and it's so simple that it can be relied upon due to the minimal amount of things that can go wrong. It's a cracking bike, but not content with leaving anything alone, I decided to dismantle it and throw some money at it.
Having it in a damp garage done it no favours and the frame suffered some minor surface corrosion and was generally a bit tatty.
Once I started using the bike, I became absolute enamoured with it and there began the hunt for the perfect Single Speed bike.
The problem with this base came in four folds:
- It was a medium frame and I'm 1.81 metres
- It was an old school 26er setup
- It utilised rim brakes
- It suffered from some minor visual blemishes due to being steel
I was therefore on the hunt for a
Titanium Large 29er Single Speed Frame. After 6 months of scouring the web, all I could find were either Mediums/Geared/26er/Cracked. It seems that in recent times, dedicated single speed frames have dropped out of favour and instead people now just convert geared bikes and use a chain tensioner. I wasn't content with this as I wanted that elusiveness of the single speed frame.Keen to get out and cycling, I abandoned this idea as a short-term solution and then I uhhmmed and arred about getting it resprayed. Unfortunately Covid happened, my car was taken off the road and a series of other projects got in the way.
I reassembled the
Inbredbike, threw a set of rigid carbon fibre forks and SRAM hydraulic brake and Magura rear hydraulic rim brake and did countless miles on it.On-One Ti29er Inbred Lynskey
A couple of months ago I was explaining this dilemma to Dad and on a whim quickly searched eBay for the thing I have been searching for, lo and behold there it was, the bike that ticked all the boxes.
An 18 year old 29er Titanium Single Speed Large Frame in Scotland was for sale, it was more than I wanted to pay, but after wanting one for 3 years I decided I just had to have it and after a quick message on eBay I hit the
Buy It Nowbutton.
And then it arrived, light enough a baby could lift it, rigid enough it won't fold when my fat arse sits on it.
And there began the part search.
Parts List
Below are a list of parts that I scoured for the build. I already have a titanium road/gravel bike that is my pride and joy daily commuter. The idea for this bike is the occasional 30+ mile round trip to work, but more to hit the trails near me on the weekend.
I may have overspent on the frame, but I won't be going all out on the parts list (or so I hoped). Some items are gems, and others are run of the mill intentionally. The frame is complemented with all bolts being titanium.
- On-One Ti29er Inbred Lynskey Frame
- eXotic Rigid Carbon 29er Mountain Bike Fork, Post Mount PM Disc Brake, 49.0cm 29
- eXotic Full Carbon Ti Seatpost 27.2x250 with Titanium Bolts 0 Offset MTB/Road
- Halo T2 29er Rims (36H)
- Halo 40 x 288mm Rear Double Butted Rear Stainless Spokes
- Halo 20x288mm + 20x 286mm Front Double Button Front Stainless Spokes
- Halo 29er Rim Tape
- DMR Revolver Single Speed Rear Hub
- DMR Front Hub
- DMR - BRENDOG DeathGrip - Flange - Thick - MTB Grips
- DMR 10mm Chain Tugs for BMX Track Fixie Dirt Jump Single Speed Bike
- DMR V6 Plastic Pedals (PAIR) Mountain Bike BMX (9/16") Flat Platform (NEW) BLACK
- FSA Orbit UF 1-1/8 Threadless Sealed Bearing Headset , Black
- FSA Headset Carbon Spacer 1 1/8"
- KMC S1 BMX Wide Single Speed Chain For Internal Gear Hub 1/2" X 1/8" - 112 Links
- SRAM Truvativ Powerspline MTB Bottom Bracket - 118 x 68mm
- SRAM SX Eagle Crankset - Boost - Powerspline - 170mm - 32t
- SRAM Guide G2 R Hydraulic Disc Brakeset ( Front + Rear) + Clamp + Rotors
- Hope 2 x Floating Disc Rotor 203mm 6 Bolt Cycling Bike Ride Performance
- Maxxis Grifter 29 x 2.50 60 TPI Wire Single Compound tyre
- Salvaged Original On One Inbred Seat from Steel Bike
- Salvaged Original On One Handlebars/Stem from Steel Bike
Assembly
It would turn out, finding a rear single speed hub proved to be a little challenging so I just decided to build the wheels myself and that way I can have matching hubs/rims/spokes and build it exactly to specification.
With the parts arriving thick and fast, I began first by building the wheel.
£20 for this little wheel truing stand off of eBay I was ready to build the wheel. Probably took around 3 hours per wheel as I like to take my time and fully lubricate things.
I could place the forks in situe but not ready to cut the stem.
I've been running a set of these forks on my steel frame and they've held up to the tasks that I'm going to put them through. I dislike suspension as I'm relying on this for commuting in emergencies and it's annoying having the energy zapped out of you!
I could lightly place the other components on and get a feel for how it's going to hang together.
I'm building this a bit of a joke on myself really, so a set of 203mm Hope floating discs (pretty sure these are better spec than ones fitted to my motorbikes).
Start throwing the setup together now.
Stem cut and awaiting seat post.
Seat height adjusted and saddle fitted.
The saddle is well worn, but turns out people want like £100 for these used on eBay
SRAM Glide2 brakes arrived this morning so I've slapped these on.
Not silly expensive brake setup, I shouldn't be going fast enough to even need them. The steel frame was rear rim and that was fine.
And throw on some of the original
On One Inbredparts for good measure.
Concluded
Which brings the project to a finish.
Only a 3 month project, which has siphoned money from my RD project, but the reality is the RD project IS the fun, whereas this is something where using it is where the enjoyment comes from.
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Cheers @HOTSHOT-III. No me neither, but there seems to be some sort of cult following for this specific bike.
That's the saddle and they want £110 USED.
And the single speed frames seem to command decent money on the used market.
This one here is for £600!
Few teething issues just snagging the bike yesterday morning and then went to go ride the bike and came back to a flat tyre. Not sure if it was a defective inner tube as the puncture repair kit just melted the inner tube.
So I've ordered some more inner tubes and if I can be bothered could cycle over to Halfrauds and buy one so I can use it today.
The floating parts of the disc were fouling the bike/caliper so some minor adjustments needed and setting the chain tension etc. But it's basically there. Went around the block and I probably need to drop a few teeth on the front chain ring as I won't be doing any uphill cycling with it as it is. Fast on the flat though
