I did it in my garage on a 650B conversion. It's not rocket surgery. If you are planning to get it painted anyway, then fine. By no means will you need to get a repaint just because you squeezed the chainstays. If you wanted to pay a professional to modify your frame, Riv will not be doing the work. They might give you a referral, though.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:39:59 PM UTC-7, Jim Bronson wrote: > > Gang, > > There was recently a thread on the 650B forum about increasing chainstay > to run Hetres for example. One method used by Alex Wetmore had pictures: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/88336152@N00/11139776595/ > > It's an area of interest to me since I converted my bike to 650B. There > were some comments about early Rivendells having less chainstay clearance > and my bike seems to be among these despite being a custom. So I am > interested in this for my bike, but only if it's really feasible. I > certainly don't want to weaken the chainstays, and I understand a repaint > will probably be necessary afterwards. > > This seems a bit dicey to do at home, so, was just wondering if anyone had > sent their bike back to Rivendell, or anywhere else, to have this done. > > -- > Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
