| * - a dingle is a bicycle built up with two chainrings and a single rear cog, and an appropriate chain tensioner to take up the chain slack, since there ain't no derailleur to do it. The name derives from the idea of a double singlespeed, and such a bike, while not quite the statement of mechanical simplicity that is a singlespeed, does provide one with a lower gear for times of steepness, tiredness, laziness or cargoness... |
 the dingle ->My former coworker, and established bike wrench and burgeoning farmer to boot, and even horticultural student and former bicycle delivery rider (you try pulling, by bicycle, two hundred plus pounds of roasted coffee beans packed into a cargo trailer, in the winter...) Meagan commissioned a frame which she intends to build up as a dingle*, though just to preserve all her options must also sport enough construction details to allow full multi-gear derailment considerations- in other words, she wants to be able to mount a rear de-ray-lur should the mood grab her, down the road so to speak.Also, room for fenders, decently fast handling without being twitchy, ability to throw on a rack, six-twenty-two wheels, lugged construction AND inch-and-an-eighth steerer, and it needs to be orange when finished. |
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