Suzy Jackson said:... I've got an old steel roadie in the garage with those much sought after horizontal dropouts,
and a rear triangle that was brazed together when five speed freewheels were plentiful, that's
been quietly gathering dust since I built my go faster aluminium massively overgeared clicky
lever bike.
So I thought about it a bit, and figured it'd be lots of fun to put track cranks and wheels on it,
and throw away that nasty back brake for ever, and see if I can break myself of this terrible
coasting habit. Further down the track (pun entirely intended) I could go and talk to a
framebuilder and get a real track frame (or perhaps even a box of tubes and lugs), put my shiny
new cranks and wheels on it, and see how much I can scare myself going around in circles (but
always pedalling of
course).
The bike already has darn near everything you need on it. If I were you I would start with that. Use
the place where the inner ring goes and the chainline will usually be pretty good. My advice would
be to get a rear track hub so you have a lockring, a cog and a chain, and take off all the stuff
that you no longer need. Done.
When you get the real track bike, then is the time to worry about track cranks and other bits.
Quoted message said:In any case, I cast around on the net looking for suitable candidates, and decided Record is
ridiculously expensive, as is Dura-Ace.
There's a surprise
Quoted message said:Next down the list seems to be the Miche Primato bits, which seem at first glance to strike a good
compromise between shinyness and expense. Are they as nice as they look?
I haven't seen any up close and personal, so no specific comments. IIRC a friend uses their hubs and
likes them.
Quoted message said:I see they use cartridge bearings. What do I do when said bearings disintegrate?
Buy a new one, This is, to me, a disadvantage. Of course, cartridge bottom brackets have shown their
reliability, so maybe these hubs will last well, too.
Quoted message said:The next issue is that the cranks are 135mm PCD, whereas most other track cranks seem to be 144.
Is this likely to cause grief?
135? Finding new rings will be a RPITA, probably. But if you use 1/8" it may be a long while before
you need to worry about a new ring.
Quoted message said:
Finally, is it an issue squeezing the back end of a 126mm wide bike down to 120mm? It's had 130mm
wide wheels forced into it before without significant complaint.
It might be easier to add a couple mm of spacer to either side of the hub. Not likely to
cause trouble.
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