Evolution

The ongoing SS plans are getting more and more specific of course
wanted to be 130-150mm, but cant have ugly cable stops all over it, must have bolt through fork, but that raises the fork limit to 140mm, ruling out the simple

all in all it turned a bit ugly. but then I noticed the new Orange (eugh dirty word) P7
steel, 140mm forks, with crafty interchangeable dropouts, all vertical, but sliding. with or without hanger capability. and if you DID want gears perhaps one day, you could always ziptie on a full-length-outered cable.
long-ish-fork single speed trail basher most of the time, and on the off chance you fancy gears, zip on a ready set up mech, cable and shifter combo with the interchangeable drop out setup.
and stick in the Bulb wheel from the garage.

What i would class as an fairly burly ride for some one like me who doesn't hammer the crap out of things, with plenty of travel for my needs.
Optimum Build (in my eyes) looks like this:

Orange P71 frame - 379.95

Marzocchi 55 TST2 2008 - 339.99

Red Pro2s, Trials rear, 20mmBT front on Black Mavic EN321s, Black Spokes - 214.99

Hone crankset bash - 74.99

Hope headset - 59.99

Hope Seatclamp - 9.99

Hope Skewer - 14.99

Hayes Stroker Ryde 6" rear - 99.99

Hayes Stroker Ryde 7" front - 104.99

Raceface Atlas Bars,Stem & SeatPost - 39.99, 62.99 & 29.99

Speccy BGII grips - 7.99

Speccy BG Avatar Saddle - 19.99

SRAM nickel plated singlespeed SP1 chain - 9.99

Middleburn Hardcoat Middle Chainring - 19.99

Gusset single speed sprocket - 3.99

Tyres - Conti Diesel ~ 30.00

Xpedo spd knockoff Pedals - 29.99

Totaling a not too uncomfortable £1554.82

only thing is lacking as the custard paint job, but i'll live i think.