?late 80's frame, brazeon fm: can I use a compact chainwheel?

Posted on Sat 12th, June 2010

• #1

moorjohn

I've just got a late 80's frame.

Want to put fairly modern kit on it, including compact crankset (or maybe triple)

But it's a brazeon front mech.

No worries with a band-on, because you can just slide it down a bit to get it nice and close to the big ring.

But with this, I don't know if I'll have enough scope for adjustment; depends where the brazeon is and how big the slot is.

don't really want to buy a compact crankset then not be able to use it...

has anyone any experience of this?

thanks a lot

moorjohn
• #2

retrodicorsa

I've never found the braze-on position to be a problem when fitting compacts to older steel frames and I've done a few. There's not a huge difference in position anyway...
• #3

yoav

The braze-on usually has a slot for the mech to allow quite a bit of vertical adjustment. If it isn't enough, you can file the slot to lower the mech, but I suspect that wont be needed.

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