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^^ this will not be happening
but glad you like the bike. It is destined to become my commuter doing trips of less than 10ks mostly through inner city traffic. I approached it like my previous builds, I took apart everything that I could. In my rush to disassemble I cut the rear spokes rather than head to a LBS (I didn't have the correct cassette tool) and immediately regretted it. I was on the local version of ebay and figured I could probably sell the hubs for more than I thought they were worth and hubs are easier to sell without a cassette screwed on..... so after several hours of grumbling I had re-laced the drive side of the rear hub to a 26" rim by using spokes from the disassembled 700c front. I had to bend little hooks into the spokes to get them onto the hub, down to the LBS and job done.
I was quite pleased with the parts that came with the frame, most I will be able to reuse: Rims are ok; headset is a super record with indexed steering, but with loose ball bearings it should be serviceable; crankset is record and will do for the moment, the bottom bracket has been replaced at some stage with an LP-26, 113mm, putting the outside ring chainline at 45mm, exactly where i need it, but putting the inside chainring perilously close to the chainstay and the bike unridable as I bought it; the stem is fine and will get reused; the brakes are record and the rear one will get reused.
everything else I will try to sell to give me more money for parts. it came with a record seatpost which should be easy to flog for a tidy little sum.
the frame and fork look pretty good. there is a slight bend in the toptube (in the middle of the toptube downwards by a couple of mm) but nothing to worry about.
next up is to strip the paint and then the frame has a date with an angle grinder...
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You're definitely a fucktard, eh.
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but why not just get a single speed bike and not ruin a perfectly nice geared one?
or just ride it geared?
(serious question; i don't see the advantage of converting this).There are just no new frames available here! This build was planned before I bought this bike, I wanted a decent steel frame, a disc brake and internally geared hub. The best way I could think of to get a decent steel frame for a good price was to buy a complete bike, strip it and then sell the parts I didn't want. Just about the only other option would have been a custom frame, which i would have loved to do, but just don't have the money. I never wanted a nice, classic road bike, just the frame. As it turned out some of the parts will also work with the build I have planned. I really don't think I am going to "ruin" anything, but I guess we will see...
Revert to gears, it has hangers and non track dropouts, it deserves to have them used.
Argentina has an abundance of velodromes so I'm sure track specific bikes can't be too hard to find!There are track bikes here and I already have one, it is original from the 80s and has an Argentinian frame, hubs, headset, bottom bracket. It is a fine example of what was produced here when they had a good local industry. But for this build I want to be able to run 28c tyres with the option of 32c, this is not going to happen with any track frame that I have come across.
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Exactly, the bike was so lovely before, no conversion can live up to that, ever.
the bike was lovely, but at some time before I bought it. It came with a not so nice Sachs rear mech which was shot; some pretty average condition Athena brake levers; some 105 gear levers, a poor condition Regal saddle, Miche hubs that are in questionable condition and a pretty average repaint which was obscuring some lovely details on the frame. This was **not **an original build when I got it and would have cost 5 times what I paid for the bike to restore it to "original condition". I agree that the bike looked lovely and hence why I bought it. But it's not exactly an original Cinelli Laser either.
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so, about a year ago I moved to Argentina and a tiny bit less than a year ago I had my bike stolen in Argentina...... It was a bike I had built in Sydney and it got stolen due to my unwarrranted faith in a padlock and cable and my underestimation of the criminal underbelly of Mendoza, Argentina.
I replaced it with a crappy beater that I thought less likely to be targeted by aforementioned underbelly.
After many miles on the beater I began to think I had possilbly overreacted and aimed a little low. So I got around to making an insurance claim on the first bike, they gave me some money and I decided to use it to build up something I could enjoy riding.
In Argentina there are very few new, imported bikes/parts due to import restrictions. All new parts and bikes are brought in by individuals, so think not much of anything and double the retail price if you can find it. So I decided on a conversion. There were lots of pretty decent bikes produced locally during the 70s and 80s.
My idea of a conversion has an internally geared hub with a front disc brake.
Next came the bike search, there is a sort of ebay here and I found something that looked ok from the 3 not very good photos on the ad. due to my budget i would need to reuse as many parts from the original bike as I could, these are the photos from the ad. i went ahead and bought it, using about 1/3 of my budget, it was sold with an Italian sounding name that i can't remember.