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@arnold_gostron
Hello all.
I have a GT 29er SS that I sees a moderate amount of off-road use, but I'd like to use as a fixed beater/pub-bike as well. It has disc brakes front + back and an eccentric BB with vertical dropouts.
The front wheel needs replacing (taco'd the rim when I was last oout on the trail), so I thought I would plump for a whole new wheelset - and thought that a Velosolo-converted Shimano M756 would probably be the ticket - run it fixed on the road, then remove the cog and replace with a disc rotor ( and possibly 1-2 spacers in order to line-up the rotor properly) and stick a cog on the freewheel in order to run offroad SS?
Has anyone ever done or seen anything like this? As far as I can see, the main problem will be in dishing/chainline/disc-rotor-alignment, but I guess that there's scope to space out either disc-rotor or fixed cog, if necessary. Is this a ridonkulous idea, or feasible?