Starling Updates the Beady Little Eye To V3

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The Beady Little Eye is the freakiest, fastest, weirdest beast in the Starling brood. A single gear, tiny travel, a skinny and steel frame, a shed load of lo-fi fun. And it’s now back in the Starling line up, for a limited time only, with a whole heap of V3 upgrades.

The Beady is the choice of a special community of freaks and geeks. Ultra-distancers, bike-packers, XC-racers, dirt-jumpers, park-ratters, grown up-BMXers. The enlightened few that know the more you subtract, the more you add. The Beady is a full-suspension, single-speed mountain bike. But think of it as a hardtail with more grip and less chatter. It’s stupid fun and crazy fast. It's has 90mm of rear travel and is 100% built in the UK with a Reynolds 853 front triangle. It’s available with 27.5”, 29” or mullet wheels and suits forks from 110mm to 140mm.

The Beady’s special sauce is that the swing arm rotates around the BB. That means zero chain growth and a simple, single-speed setup. The chain line is offset from the pivot, meaning you run zero sag to stop the pedal bob. That means hardtail geo, a super low BB, on-rails cornering. The keyboard warriors will say it doesn’t make sense, but our community of Beady owners know that it’s pure, low-fi lightning. It might just be the best, purest, simplest fun you can have on two wheels. It cranks like a hardtail, with the explosive punch of a single speed. Throw in a big hit, drop or compression and the suspension comes to life, working when you need it to. Just enough movement for silly, scary speed. Just enough for a raw, rowdy, lo-fi, pedal-all-day, one-of-a-kind ride.

It’s a weird bike for weird riders. Riders that don’t give a damn about gears. Riders that love the feel of steel and a bike that’s brutally simple, zero maintenance and absolutely flies.

The new Beady gets a whole load of upgrades to bring it up to speed with Starling’s V3 full-suspension frames. It’s now got that lovely, swoopy headtube gusset, our anti-flair head tube and anti-seize seat tube. We’ve upped the dropper insertion and we’ve moved to a classic seat-clamp to keep things simple. The Beady also now has a really smart, redesigned bottom bracket solution that increases crank compatibility and extends
bearing life massively.