Simple, practical and stylish. If you are seeing for a singular speed or fixed gear bike for year round commuting or training, the Raleigh Usa One Way a great option. The One Way is a duplicate butted steel cyclocross frame, set-up for singular speed riding. The bike is made to be practical but still has a lot of panache with a Brooks B-17 pre-aged leather saddle and customary round bend drop bars.
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Raleigh has been manufacture potential steel bikes for a long time so it's cool to see them bring out a bike that has an old school feel mated with contemporary features such as sealed cartridge bearing hubs and bottom bracket and deep profile rims. The rear wheel is a flip-flop, with a fixed cog on one side and free wheel on the other so you can ride fixed but aren't forced too if you aren't comfortable with not being able to coast. The frame runs cantilever brakes and has lots of frame clearance so there is room for wide tires (up to 40 mm) with full wrap fenders, which it comes with.
I've been riding a One Way for about a year now and out of my fleet of bikes, it gets ridden more often than all the others. The conjecture for this is functionality. 35 mm wide Vittoria Randonneur Cross tires with fenders make it exquisite for just about any weather and road condition. I've done long gravel grinder rides on dirt roads and rail trails as well as daily commuting. The tire clearance will allow steel studded tires for winter riding but I haven't needed them this year as we've had so minuscule snow.
I run mine as a fixed gear and have taken the freewheel off. I love off season fitness riding on a fixed gear as you get all the systems hit within a singular ride. You build durability on the flats, muscular durability on the climbs and learn to spin smoothly at high cadence on the downhills. Riding a fixie is very time efficient as an hour ride is an hour of pedaling with no coasting.
The Raleigh Usa One Way is a great value for specialty bike like this. Most fixed gear/single speed bikes are built on a road geometry frame limiting the size of tire and often have no room for fenders. The cyclocross frame makes for a more versatile platform for whatever who wants an all weather bike. The One Way makes a great road bike for mountain bikers and for me it's a great all round machine for both commuting and training. I can see having this bike 10 years from now, which is saying a lot for me as I tend to flip my bikes every year or two for the latest models. The Raleigh One Way has a timeless potential to it that will make it just as beneficial years from now as it is today.
Bike reveal - Raleigh Usa One Way single Speed Cyclocross Bike
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