Singlespeed Conversion, Help Needed Please

Go to bed.

You should, on the other hand, stay up and see how many five speed freehubs you can find

Also I have one on the 27inch wheels I took off my geoffrey butler.

Well done
I found them too ................ eventually

Yellowjersey.org
http://www.yellowjersey.org/WINTECH.JPG

Jims vintage bike parts Picasaweb - Thats a screw on freewheel NOT A FREEHUB
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What I find hard to understand is the speed with which you and others will try to belittle anyone who doesn't bow to your point of view or agree wholeheartedly with any ridiculous and arrogant statement you want to make

I wanted the original poster to have a chance to confirm what he did in fact have on his rear wheel, no malice in what I posted at all ........... it is a common mistake to make, to wrongly call a sprocket block a cassette or freehub. What I said about RPM was meant in fun ........ really meant in fun only
You just had to join in and start trouble based on what ??? your vast experience in bike building and maintenance ???

In future please try not too be too clever and consider for a minute that not everyone who posts here has been riding for years, knows a crank extractor from a cup removing tool or a two pin freewheel tool from a headset spanner. They just might need to be led by the hand for a little while.

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this thread made me laugh. hacked if you have not seen a 5 speed screw on cassette how many old bikes have you worked on? used to see them all the time at the bike collective i worked at, and any shop mechanic will back up that they exist and are seen on older 10 speed racers. RPM is a rude cunt, but he knows his shit, and is actually funny and right. ASM may be an artsy type, but he is right too, and funnier then you. you lose.

@P!MP, welcome to the forum, don't listen to Hacked, and keep your fingers away from RPMs mouth, he bites, other then that you will be fine.

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meh seen booth, in decent amounts.

Really ?? ??? ???

Suntour Panasonic Shimano ?? ?? ??

old greasy rusty hubs mostly, lots unbadged, homless people are not that fussy as long as it works. some worked the campag way, some didn't.

Hmmmmmmmm

Really Really ?? ?? ??

pah. hacked, RPM admitted he's a cunt before you started visiting this forum just give the man some credit ok? AND if you look up sheldon's site most of the geared stuff i.e. screw on block & cassette are being discussed together. i'm sure the pimp who asked the question must have enough brains to sort himself out when he reads the damn thing. last thing. put 5 spacers in a 10 speed cassette you'll end up with a 5 speed. put 9 in you get a single speed. make sense?

And bet you've never seen how many frames there were sitting in chris crash's squat.

has anyone called anyone a nazi yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

can i just point out that if someone is a newbie, or if they seem like a newbie, forum etiquette demands an appropriate level of rudeness, varying in response to the level of confusion shown by the aforementioned 'new' poster.

this is a joke, by the way.

fuck off

does that work?

i'ma gonna ask a stupid question.

it's an old bianki rite?

does it have forward facing horizontal dropouts?

if it does, i would be inclined to get new wheel, rather than 'keep as much as possible' of a ropey old wheel.

6 months ago the forum was really friendly everyone knows what sense of humour is. then somehow people started showing up and within 3 posts they are posting a "fuck off" already. how much do you know about etiquette and say someone else is rude?

i dont stand with being rude to new people who join the forum but posting a 'fuck off' to any other person you haven't even met before, whom you just didn't get the joke is just way off the mark.

Actually Hope make a Mountain Bike Trials specific rear hub which is a 5 speed freehub. The governing powers that be of 26" trials dictate that all bikes must have a minimum of 5 gears to be allowed to compete.

They can't be that rare as Chain Reactions sell them FFS.

Oh and by the way, Hacked you were being a cunt. Get over yourself.

enjoying the 'lawsuit' tag

STFU guys

Thanks for all the advice guys. Sorry I made the mistake I should have said its a screw on freewheel, not a freehub, apologies for the confusion. At the risk of causing more arguements could any of you please tell me if redishing is really necessary? I ordered a conversion kit today from Charlie the Bikemonger to convert the bianchi properly. Today I adjusted it to run on just one rear ring and on the smaller front sprocket. I will need new cranks and sprockets I think as the Omega ones on at present have the larger sprocket and spider as one unit and the smaller sprocket attached. Dont really fancy running a 52 tooth ring on the front all the time.

Right before anyone else gets in with any more hilarity:

hummm.

Well first of all, you won't need to redish your wheel if you're adding spacers.

When you say front sprockets do you mean the chainrings on the crankset?

so the larger chainring is built into the crank arm? It you use a 20t rear sprocket with the 52 on the front, that will give you a nice easy gear. If you're using spacers, you should be able to easily get a decent chainline. That's what i'd do, then you could take off the smaller ring on the cranks to streamline it a little bit.

Frankly, Hacked2, all RPM did was say:

Will people please get sheldoned up

...and then you blew your top. He even said PLEASE for fuck's sake!!

You're taking it personally, and the comment wasn't even aimed at you it was aimed at the OP.

Don't go off on one and provoke us then complain that we're being rude!