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• #2
Firstly, I may be wrong but that's not a track frame.
If its a steel frame then you can just pull the dropouts apart to fit the wheel in, though about 5mm either side is the most you'll manage easily. Steel frames can also be "cold set" to widen the dropout distance. This means bending the stays out wards in a jig to maintain alignment. Frame builders/repairers do this. You generally can't do it on an aluminium, titanium or carbon frame.
The hub in the upper photos looks like you can remove the spacer from the axle to get a narrower spacing. I've no idea what that is on the end of the axle in the lower photograph. Something from a mountain bike hub perhaps? Clearly that's too big and unlikely to be made to fit.
Both are road hubs with cassettes, so are you going single speed? Getting a new hub is possible but I suspect that the cost of the hub and rebuilding of the wheel is not going to be worth it compared to the cost of a new rear wheel, which should have threads for a single sprocket freewheel and/or fixed.
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• #3
hey yoav thanks for the quick reply!
it is steel so looks like il drop it down to my lbs to get that sucker opened up!
provided i can get that spacer off, and the frame to fit, am i right in thinking i can just remove my sprockets off and just drop a single on?
and then put spacers on the hub to straighten up the chainline?
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• #4
- Thats a road frame with Vertical Dropouts.
- 126mm or 130mm spacing. Probably 126mm
- If you are going Single Speed: you will probably need a chain tensioner, unless you stumble across a magic gear, as your dropouts have no room to move in. If you're going fixed you will need a new wheelset anyway and you should look here: http://eehouse.org/fixin/fixmeup.php to work it out.
- Thats a road frame with Vertical Dropouts.
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• #5
i get 122mm inner to inner, or 135 outer to outer?
looks like someone has already bent it slightly!
im going single freewheel so will just drop a chain tensioner on there.
so the question still remains, can i use the exisiting wheelset thats in the top photos? (provided i can get that spacer off) and can i either just leave that sprocket on the rear, or just a single sprocket with spacers?
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• #6
Yes, the first wheelset will work fine with a chain tensioner and singlespeed.
You don't need to take the spacer off the top wheelset- Just spring the frame out with the wheel.
This one:
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• #7
hey eyebrows, thanks for your help you were tright they do fit! bit snug but jobs a good un! there was me thinking i had to buy a whole new wheelset! (which considering these campag ones are just fine i didnt want to do!)
iv know got the sprockets off so just on the hunt for campag single conversion.... do any exist?
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• #9
hahahaha thats brilliant!!!! im definately using that again hahah!
dont worry id already found one almost instantly anyway, dont really know why i asked guessed i wondered if anyone had any recommendations, either way thanks anyway all :)
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• #10
last question (for now hah)
if i take a campag single conversion on the rear, does that mean that crankset is also going to have to be campag for the chain?
or can i put a sram crankset on?
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• #11
No.
Yes.
But Shimano is a no-no.
hey guys, got a track frame with 120mm dropouts,
neither of my wheels fit (pics below). my first wheelset the hub looks about 140mm, and the other around 135
what are my options for getting something that will fit? ie new hub or new wheelset?
also about to order a crankset + BB, can i order them both without any issues or should i wait till iv got my wheels sorted first?
EDIT:pictures removed