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Hi everyone. Once again, your advice is sought... I bought a bike on ebay (have posted it here elsewhere asking about bars) which is a fairly small unknown frame which came with very nice 700c DT Swiss Wheels. I just put it together this afternoon, and when I first got on I realised that something fishy is going on with the wheel size. With cranks horizontal my feet strike the front wheel if it turns only the slightest amount. Cranks are 170 but even the smallest feet would hit the wheel.
changing to 165 would still leave it very tight, and anyway, I bought the bike with the (reasonable) assumption that wheels, frame and cranks were all compatible.
I have the option of keeping the wheels, chainset, cranks etc, and buying another frame (a separate question leaps out here - what compatibility issues would limit my choice of replacement frame??).
But, separately, do I have legitimate grounds for complain here? Buying a new frame would cost me some, and with the money I have already spent I could have got something very nice, instead of patching together a bike with what I can salvage from this deal. So maybe I could try getting my money back and getting something different entirely.
I'm a bit pissed off to be honest, since I expected to be riding around on this godawfully cold afternoon......
thanks in advance for any advice
part-and-parcel of selling a complete bike on the bay is the implicit truth that the wheels fit the frame? Even changing to 165 cranks would leave it tight.