New poster looking for help

Tynan - do you know where I could get those white levers? The look lurvely. Are they in production or were they a lucky find?

It's just a Paul eLever - I stripped that and a Dura Ace caliper apart - and had them both powder coated white - and then spray painted all the silver bits black.

Paul lever from either paulcomp.com or freshtripe.co.uk.

I don't have a frame yet. All but one that I've looked at had vertical dropouts. I thought that without horizontal dropouts or an eccentric BB you needed a tensioner etc to run SS. Obviously not! "Or you can get a rear hub (that excepts a screw on freewheel) from White Industries that can tension the chain for you so no need for a tensioner even with non-horizontal drop outs." sounds perfect. I'll have a look for one. I'll have to go through that list of '"working" SS combos to find a tgood 'un i.e. cheap :-)

Do yourself a favour and get a frame with horizontal drop outs - or if you find a steel frame with non-horizontal drop outs get the drop outs replaced with horizontal ones.