Dolan Pre Cursa / PreCursa / Track Champion

Can't decide on what colour Pre Cursa to buy, any opinions?

• Red Pre Cursa
  
• Black parts
  
• Maybe white bartape and saddle, just maybe
  
• (Maybe) gumwalls
  
  

Or

• Gunmetal Pre Cursa
  
• Black parts, but not too bad if it has a little silver, I'd try to avoid it
  
• Redwall or gumwall tires
  
  

If anyone has one for sale in 56cm please also let me know, colour doesn't matter then

Gunmetal for the win, black parts IMO

Red Pre Cursa, black parts, saddle and bartape. Only hubs and rims in silver, aaaaand gumwalls

Just got a new pre cursa and the dropouts seem to not be parallel? Only by a small amount, but is this likely to cause much of a Problem?

Sorry, struggling to post images from phone

[http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x101/benjipage/IMG_20170110_13

Cheers!

Few production frames have perfectly parallel dropouts. Just make sure your axle nuts are tight and you'll be fine.

Looks fine, but if it reeaaallly bothered you (although bending alu definitely isn't recommended on a public forum) could use an adjustable spanner to pull the top half back out a bit (using cardboard to protect the paint.

Selling my 52cm Dolan Pre Cursa frameset for £110, UK postage will cost about £20 I think.

You're talking about the combination of fork length and BB height.

Track bike's BB are very high, between 5 to 10mm higher than road.

Mean a 140mm headtube feel more like 135-130mm.

Plus, the fork on track bike are typically short, so the headtube actually felt a little lower than 135-130mm on top of the BB height.

CX bicycles have says 135mm headtube but because the fork is nearly 30mm longer (395mm vs. Track 367mm) the headtube felt a lots higher than 135mm.

Can mudguards be fitted to a 56 or 58cm Pre Cursa? Something like the SKS race blades...

Yup, that what Raceblade are designed for.

Would recommend the new Crud roadracer mk3 tho for more coverage.

Cool man, have you tried SKS blades on a Pre Cursa, the one with 30 or 35mm rake track fork?

Nope.

The Pre Cursa has mudguard mounts on the dropouts. On the front it depends on fork choice.

Looking to get the track fork for handling and aesthetics, as opposed to the road fork.

Can anyone else shed light on the mudguard conundrum?

Dude it will fit.

@ZenithE These guards work well! What are they?

Here it is on my colleague's bike;

The old Crud Roadracer Mk2.

The new one is better;

Road fork has guard tabs.
Track fork does not.

P-clips and mounting kits can be had to fit guards on non-ready forks, or just get Clip-on type guards that attach to the fork legs.

Probs photos further back in this thread as it's a fairly common thing to add guards to a PC.

(i went FXE so road fork)

Dolan sell the SKS version, one stop shop (no idea if these can be had way cheaper elsewhere)

http://www.dolan-bikes.com/bike-components/cycle-mudguards/sks-race-blade-xl-700x25-32-clip-on-mudguard-set.html