Price: £550.00, frame and fork. Approx £1,300.00 as built From: Stooge, stoogecycles.co.uk
Sometime during high school I had an epiphany: the cool kids were always going to think I was a freak – so I may as well give up trying to fit in and just do whatever the hell I wanted. While this attitude may have led to some interesting fashion choices over the years, it also leads to a whole lot of ‘why the hell not?’ shenanigans. In a world of full suspension, slack hardtails and battery-powered everything, this rigid steel twin top tubed named-after-a-punk-band Stooge MK4 seemed like a perfectly perverse option. To seal the deal, I have eschewed gears – a choice cemented when Chipps told me that single speeding was a very, very bad idea for any Calder Valley rider.