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I dunno dude, I want to a shop in strood called geoff wiles, like some professional race & track bike shop, he said that its the wrong size to fit others ect, his correct words was ,you wont fit another bottom bracket for nor love or money.... n he knows more than me as Im a noob, I will take some photos of the bottom bracket tonight, see what you think. tar.
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measure your b.b shell width.
Google the terms if you don't know to what I'm referring.
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Strood, worked out there for a few months, they don't like change
Diggerland is in Strood.
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seat angle
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some vintage bikes had an oversized bottom bracket (similar to a BMX 5/16th) that modern types wont screw into possibly that is what Geoff Wiles meant, if this is the case then you need to get an adaptor sleeve that screws in and allows a modern B/B to fit.....difficult to find but cycle jumbles are a good place to start!
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What chainset are you currently using?
It might be cheaper just to buy a new chainset and matching BB.
Check the Transmission Database to see what kind of kit people are using to give them a good chainline
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just a thought - could this be the dreaded raleigh bottom bracket issue? 24 tpi job... isnt't there a Shimano bb that'll fit? (it's un51 or un52 i think...)
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im seriously that noob that I dont have a clue what you lot are going on about, I used to ride bmx, mate got me into fixedd a little while ago, bough the bike of a friend for 50 to do a conversion, didnt have the money to go buy a stupidly expensive bike, Just wanted something to cruise about on & have a bit of fun ( & no I didnt buy it because there " cool " & its the thing to do, well into anything tbh, love my hobbies, been skateboarding for 7 years, though something new would be a change! it doesnt have any brakes because its fixed & I havnt even rode it because of the chain alining situation as I dont want to bust it, my friend gave me the crank & chain ring, but didnt have the opposite side, so we used the crank arm allready on one side & Just changed the ring & crank arm on the other, the line up is bad & on the rear rixed cog, it sticks, but the free wheel is fine because it sits out a little more, I went to geoff wiles & he said the bottom bracket cant be changed for some reason? he said to either get a shorter spindal or put a spacer between the rear fixed, but I will only be able to get about a mm spacer otherwise the thread will slip! Sorry for the rant! But seriously only been helped by like 2 people on this forum, other than that I get sarcy comments or just plain stupidness, Ive hurd from so many people not to even bother joining because thats all it is, but I needed help & didnt wanna take other peoples words, but tbh its pretty true, I just wanted a little help with something that I though I would enjoy, sorry I bough the wrong frame! sorry I dont know alot, but thats Just how it is, I cant expect to be genius at it in 5 mins im affraid, Im picking up another bike from a dude on freecycle on sunday, might be better, ill look, anywho bed time, work tomorow, tar for people that did help, rant over. Night
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fixed doesn't = nobrakes (unless you're riding on the track where you can't kill yourself as easily).
if you get this new frame seriously get at least a front brake and some foot retention. I'm not saying this to be mean or to make you cry, I don't want you to die because you don't know how to control your bike properly.
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just a thought - could this be the dreaded raleigh bottom bracket issue? 24 tpi job... isnt't there a Shimano bb that'll fit? (it's un51 or un52 i think...)
That had crossed my mind, some decent photographs accompanied by some measurements of things would help us to diagnose the problem.
GingerJoe- can you provide this?
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But seriously only been helped by like 2 people on this forum, other than that I get sarcy comments or just plain stupidness
What a load of shit... You got 9 serious answers from forum members on this thread alone. Count em... fuckin 9 of them! Theres only 20 posts in this thread and you made 5.
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measure your b.b shell width.
Google the terms if you don't know to what I'm referring.
im seriously that noob that I dont have a clue what you lot are going on about, I used to ride bmx, mate got me into fixedd a little while ago, bough the bike of a friend for 50 to do a conversion, didnt have the money to go buy a stupidly expensive bike, Just wanted something to cruise about on & have a bit of fun ( & no I didnt buy it because there " cool " & its the thing to do, well into anything tbh, love my hobbies, been skateboarding for 7 years, though something new would be a change! it doesnt have any brakes because its fixed & I havnt even rode it because of the chain alining situation as I dont want to bust it, my friend gave me the crank & chain ring, but didnt have the opposite side, so we used the crank arm allready on one side & Just changed the ring & crank arm on the other, the line up is bad & on the rear rixed cog, it sticks, but the free wheel is fine because it sits out a little more, I went to geoff wiles & he said the bottom bracket cant be changed for some reason? he said to either get a shorter spindal or put a spacer between the rear fixed, but I will only be able to get about a mm spacer otherwise the thread will slip! Sorry for the rant! But seriously only been helped by like 2 people on this forum, other than that I get sarcy comments or just plain stupidness, Ive hurd from so many people not to even bother joining because thats all it is, but I needed help & didnt wanna take other peoples words, but tbh its pretty true, I just wanted a little help with something that I though I would enjoy, sorry I bough the wrong frame! sorry I dont know alot, but thats Just how it is, I cant expect to be genius at it in 5 mins im affraid, Im picking up another bike from a dude on freecycle on sunday, might be better, ill look, anywho bed time, work tomorow, tar for people that did help, rant over. Night
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this is me new bike! doing a fixed conversion, Actually finished it, but having problams, apparently Im not able to change the bottom bracket, because of the year of the bike, & the spindal is too long, so the chain doesnt line up with the rear fixed cog, so its biting & just sounds nasty! I need to some how either space the back fixed cog out a little, or even know I cant change the bottom bracket, spocket whatever, can I change it for a shorter spindal?
heres it finished anywho, cant really see it properly tbh, was a facebook profile pic, sec, n at my mrs house! anywho, help would be rad, tar! ooh the bike is triumph team leader 1983 I think.