You are reading a single comment by @sloe and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@sloe
Thanks @Marcootsee. I was tempted to strip the paint but I quite like the white head tube as well. Will probs repaint at some point.
@thebikefelix 650b is tempting for sure, but I haven't yet found a local frame builder here to help me. It would be sick to experiment with brazing and move the Canti posts but that'll have to wait until I have a second bike to ride / permanent place to live and work.
@ZenithE nice, got any pics? not sure I've seen any orange ones.
First I removed all the old parts, which took about 20mins. Everything came off with no trouble whatsoever which was surprising. After that it was a case of packing everything to move to France so not a lot happened apart from thinking..
The rear spacing is 126mm so I increased that to fit a 130mm hub. Other little mods to the frame include tapping the weird rear brake cable hanger so I can add a barrel adjuster for the Canti brakes. I also drilled out the fork crown to m6 so I could fit my Nitto M12 rack. It just had a threaded nut braze on thing which wasn't super useful to me, given the parts I already had.
See below for the original specs and a couple of pics from a very dark shed.
3 Attachments