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I've saved up a few questions, not all about the same bike.
What size do you think my pannier mounting lugs will take. Not M5 methinks, as this is an old 1950s british frame and they would not have had metric then. Would they?
Derailleur adjusting 1 - is it possible to get a 2 x 8 to work through all the rear cogs without having to trim the front? I mean, should I be able to stay on the big chainring, and work through cogs 1 to 8 without trimming at all? I just wonder if I can achieve this, so should do more adjusting, or if I have it as good as.
Derailleur adjusting 2 - again, wondering how long to spend on this. Should I be able to rotate pedals backwards without the chain snagging in every front/rear chainring/cog combination. At the moment, it does snag, a little, when I am largest front, largest rear, i.e. cross chaining. Will I ever be able to get it so it doesn't?
I have a flip/flop rear (different bike) and am going to fit freewheel on both sides. I know it is fine to put freewheel on track cogs - if there were not enough thread, then you fixie riders would tear them off all the time. But nonetheless, I want to put the freewheel which is transmitting the most torque onto the most thread... and the least the least. My thinking is that would be the largest freewheel (most teeth, 21), transmitting the most torque on the freewheel side, and the smallest freewheel, (16t) on the track side. Am I wrong?