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Sig_Arlecchino
@damskodonny
Circumstances made me dig this Batavus out of the storage. Me and two mates are having a little bike trip in the Ardennes planned, starting next Friday, and one of them had his bike stolen :( It was the road version of this rainbow coloured Van Tuyl, fitted with 600 ultegra (obv not the one in this picture).
So this road conversion Batavus is kind of ready to go. Just some new rear brake pads and fresh grease in the headset and front hub away full smoothness.
A sharp eye notices the front bake pads, which are a little tilted, due to the pads just missing the preferred brake track on the wheels. The front fork is probably drilled a bit too low... The rest of the rim is plain alu, the's no significant difference from the normal brake track. It brakes of fine now, though tested just up and down the street.
Anyone wants to talk me out of this noobish workaround? Or riding through the Ardennes on this converted track bike as a whole, in possibly wet(tish) conditions?
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