Short Horizontal Drops, Long Enough?

Posted on Mon 25th, February 2008

• #1

Poppy

Lusting after (yet) another frame, are these short horizontal drops long enough for setting up as fixed?
• #2

Sparky

Not much room for adjustment there.
• #3

ihatelaw

I will defer to the judgment of others but those angles look chainstays look short! or is it just the angles?
• #4

dogsballs

i converted a mercian for a friend exactly like that, used a half link chain. doable, but not the best (he was emotionally attached to frame, so i couldn't convince him otherwise). just visit jos and roberto, and get a nice track frame. sell the bob jackson and stop mucking about with these.
• #5

Poppy

Its not the Bob, its a sweet Bianchi, almost tempted even if it had to be geared.
• #6

Max

There is enough there (just) but as dogsballs said a half-link will almost certainly be needed. Pain if you swap ratios too (ie fiddle with chain length/half-link).
• #7

turpe

ENO Eccentric would be about the only really safe way to do that - but I would probably just run it as a geared bike.

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