Well, it’s been a long time in development but I’ve been taking pains to ensure that the Singular Peregrine will be everything I want it to be. Finally our production order is in. A lot of you have provided feedback at some point and some of these suggestions have been taken on board, many thanks for your interest. So the final configuration will look like this.

• Three sizes – 59cm TT, 56.5cm TT, and 54 cm TT. Head tubes, seat tubes and tubing tweaked as appropriate for each size. I would have liked to do a wider range, but given the size of our business at present I’m focussing on those likely to fit most needs.


• Eccentric Bottom Bracket shell and insert. There were a couple of calls for sliding dropouts, or regular horizontals, but I am sticking to my guns on the EBB as I think it’s the best way to offer singlespeed or internal hub gear capability with disc brakes both in terms of function and aesthetics.


• Disc only – some people wanted cantis (one even a caliper!) but for the sort of multi purpose all-season use for which this bike is intended, I still felt discs were the way to go, and the majority of opinion was with me.


• Fork – from the unicrown of the first protos I’ve finally gone with a nice lugged traditional crown. I think it fits the overall feel of the bike better and has the added bonus of giving extra tyre clearance without increasing fork length.


• Braze-ons will be guides for both derailleur and brakes. This will maintain a (relatively) clean look for the single-gear crowd, while still giving an all-weather set-up for derailleur gears, or the capacity for a Rohloff hub if desired.


• Paint will be slightly different from what we’ve had on the samples. The colour will be the same deep red with cream head-tube panel, but we’ll have a seat-tube rather than a down-tube panel. There will still be a green Singular down-tube decal and green lug lining.


• We will maintain the original goal of clearance for up to 48mm tyres or 42mm with mudguards.

So to the final and critical questions – time and money! Time is a fairly confident but not quite definite March 2008. Price is slightly dependent on what the final costs of the lug-sets will be to me, though overall frame and fork price ought to be in the region £450 GBP. When these firm up I will be ready to take any pre-orders as this first run is quite limited. Here are a couple of pics to keep you interested in the mean time.