Nice quality freewheels with a 28 or bigger are hard to come by, as others on other threads on this board frequently lament. I have a 14-28 6sp Shimanopore freewheel on the clinchers that will be revealed soon. I have a suntour perfect 6 speed in a 13-26 which might be delightful. The final gearing choices will in part be influenced by where the bike resides. I had kicked off this project to equip my parents and/or in-laws with a road bike for me to use when we visit. We are down there 3 or 4 times a year. Spreading to a 130mm is on my list of options, so I can run a current cassette.
On Apr 24, 5:56 am, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice bike William. I like the way these older standard gage 531C ride > and hope it gives you a lot of joy. Why struggle with a 24; why not > just go to a 27 or 28? > > My winter project was rebuilding a 1984 Trek 620. I spread the stays > just so I could go to a cassette with a 12 cog, which allows for a > smaller set of rings. In this case 48/34/ 26. But the 34/27 will > handle pretty much everything after some spring riding. > michael > > On Apr 19, 4:01 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm well on my way to converting a 1984 Trek 770 into a retro-modern > > all road bike. Two shortcomings of my current road bike (a Davidson > > Signature) were that it doesn't take a tire wider than 700x25, and > > that it fits like a racing bike. I had it custom built in my youth, > > and so now to get the bars up I had to use a Technomic Deluxe which is > > excellent but I think it looks a little less than ideal to have a ton > > of seatpost and a ton of stem showing. It makes the frame look too > > small. > > > Anyway, this Trek is a couple cm taller than my Davidson, so I hope to > > get a similar fit with a regular proportioned stem. I finished > > stripping the bike down, and I'll start selling off a lot of the Campy > > Super Record parts through the normal channels. I got my compact > > double crankset, and I've secured a few freewheels for various gearing > > options. The recent highlight is that I've confirmed that a 700x27 > > Roly Poly will fit (no fender). I'm thrilled about that, and it was > > something that I wasn't sure would work out. If the bike turns out as > > well as I hope, I might get it powdercoated. I bought some > > Resurrectio stickers from Riv on that chance. > > > Riv content: Higher bars, fearlessly riding a 30 year old lugged > > steel MUSA frameset, Roly Poly tires bought from Riv, not being retro > > for retros sake. > > > Pics on my flickr: > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/sets/72157626511175478/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
