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@Madhias
Greetings of the day (as the IT support would greet me every time), I am going to put here some pictures and text of a recent project: make a Panasonic City Cat out of a Mountain Cat. It is I guess nothing that special, and such convertions seen very often – and as always – I am too late for something or too early (like selling my ~6 bitcoins for buying a –small– lawn mower). But its fun!
I got this Panasonic MC 6500 bike really cheap for its good condition, not rusty, seatbolt is still easily removeable, the bottom bracket too, some scratches.
What I did already:
✓ cleaned here and there
✓ removed parts like brakes, cranks, handlebar
✓ installed Maxxis DTH tires (close fit in the back, but OK)
✓ installed as a test the new handlebar (Nitto HiHi-Bar)
✓ got new/old cranks and test-fitted to measure the needed size for a bottom bracket for an 1x11 setup (=113 mm bottom bracket width for a Shimano 600 crankset and a 130 mm 40T chainring)
✓ the Shimano 600 road cranks fit, it is close, but there's 5 mm at least on each chainstay side
✓ replaced the bottom bracket with a nice almost OG Shimano one
✓ replaced the 7 speed freehub with a new Shimano HG freehub & re-centered the wheel afterwards
✓ ordered fenders, cables, shifter
There are missing some parts and details how to do:
❒ should I really try this fancy Dynamo that lazy me don't have to make a new dynamo wheel? It would maybe look very mysterous and retro when mounted on the cantilever brake mounts, and no cable from the fork going upwards, saving some grams (that would be not needed), I think I am 98% sold on this solution
❒ front rack needed: I have a Wald basket and great bag for it, but no front rack. I saw this here for example
❒ the spacer stack: having a golden Chris King GripNut 1" headset, maybe some Rasta yellow-green-red vibes?
❒ how do people work with threaded forks and then 'ahead set mounted style' stems? Now I use a 1" to 1 1/8" adapter and fill the bottom 1" part with 1 1/8" spacers
❒ what kind of saddle – maybe a Brooks B17 or similar style
How can I embedd images which are uploaded here into the floating text? For now I reply and work with images as attachement.
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