Haven't previously seen this thread, I hopped on the SS bandwagon by converting an old horizontal road bike to a SS in 2022 for the cross season, only managed to do one race on it, and despite 3x having to stop to reposition the wheel after ripping it out of place, my time was better than the year prior which had me hooked. i particularly like riding it with the kids, they're getting faster but using the SS helps to level the playing field for them so some extent. For 2023 the wife and kids bought me the motobecane UNO for father's day. The thing was a bit of a beast and weighed about 30lbs. The plastic pedal survived 3 miles before tearing apart, replaced them with platforms for riding with the kids but tossed on some old ritchey spd style for racing in the fall. I rebuilt the wheels with some pub carbon rims and butted spokes for a 4lb weight savings and for 2024 would like to find a carbon fork to ditch the beast of a steel fork it comes with and install some trp hylex hydraulic disc brakes. I used it to race cross nationals in Louisville in december and placed 70th out of 74, not bad for racing with the flu and being too sick to remember to bring the dry condition tires that I should have been running. I like to think without the flu and with the right tires I could have placed in 62nd which was my placement based on national rankings but really the best I think i could have done was about 67th/68th. Either way, heading back next year to try for a better result, it was too much fun.