The things people dump..

[Gert van Santen]

Andrew Tarpinian schreef:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:52 PM, The Dong wrote:
>> The only fiddly bit might be squishing in the rear triangle for the
>> shorter axle. But it's not very difficult to adjust, cold bend, bit of
>> 2x2 or so.
> 
> I put on a fixed wheel from my other bike and it looks like it might  
> be ok, we'll see. Usually the biggest problem with a conversion is  
> normally for a fixed you want a horizontal track fork end so you can  
> pull the wheel back for tension in the chain, most bikes have dropouts  
> in the back that make this not possible, these grand prix's work  
> pretty nice cuz the drop outs are deep and you can pull the wheel back.
> 
>> The Raleigh Grand Preee:
>>
>> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/grand-prix.html
>>
>> That's almost the spitting of the road bike I found and use, which is
> 
> yup, mine is the 70's catalog one in white/black.

I remember lusting for thes type of bikes in the seventies... 
Took a whole summer vacation to earn the money to get one of 
those... I always had Peugeot, though...

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