On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 07:05 -0700, JoelMatthews wrote: > > I wonder if Rivendell well ever have a bike designed around an > > internal hub. > > Not sure. If they did, I wonder if they would also design a more > narrow bottom bracket to allow use of an American style single piece > crank? I spoke with Mike about this at NAHBS this year. If you are > only going to have one chain ring, his set up is arguably more durable > and easy to maintain. Single piece cranks will not work on most > modern bikes as the bottom bracket is too wide to fit them in.
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