doing a conversion on a road bike.
05-11-09, 01:28 PM
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doing a conversion on a road bike.
hello all.
well here is the story. i bought this "SR" Grand Course roadbike for 40 bucks at the goodwill. i ended up taking the bike apart and cleaning all the parts, cleaning all the old grease out and cleaning the bearings, well i finished putting it all together. and well im looking at it and thinking i might part it out after all. it has shimano 600 Arabesque components. so im thinking about selling those and the wheels. keeping the frame and turning it fixed.
my question is what kind of wheels are a reasonable price?
and would it be easy to do.
here is the bike. it looks much better now that i cleaned it all.
well here is the story. i bought this "SR" Grand Course roadbike for 40 bucks at the goodwill. i ended up taking the bike apart and cleaning all the parts, cleaning all the old grease out and cleaning the bearings, well i finished putting it all together. and well im looking at it and thinking i might part it out after all. it has shimano 600 Arabesque components. so im thinking about selling those and the wheels. keeping the frame and turning it fixed.
my question is what kind of wheels are a reasonable price?
and would it be easy to do.
here is the bike. it looks much better now that i cleaned it all.
05-11-09, 02:09 PM
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benscycle has some "generic hi-flange hubs laced to Alex DH22 rims" for 90 bucks plus shipping. Bikeisland and Bicyclehweelwarehouse also have cheap wheelsets that are like 100 bucks a pop. Any of those should work well.
The conversion would definitely be easy to do. You might need new cranks that will run you like 60 bucks for a cheap set. Or you can modify your existing cranks to only have one chainring.
That's a good frame for a converison. you can take off those things holding the rear brake cable on and that would clean the frame up a bit. it looks like it has horizontal dropouts so you should be set. Main things you will need are wheels and possibly new crank. You will also need cog/lockring/chain
The conversion would definitely be easy to do. You might need new cranks that will run you like 60 bucks for a cheap set. Or you can modify your existing cranks to only have one chainring.
That's a good frame for a converison. you can take off those things holding the rear brake cable on and that would clean the frame up a bit. it looks like it has horizontal dropouts so you should be set. Main things you will need are wheels and possibly new crank. You will also need cog/lockring/chain
05-11-09, 02:22 PM
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thanx. yeah it has horizontal drops. and it does look really clean with no cables running on it. as for a crankset im sure i can find something somewhere.
05-11-09, 02:49 PM
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You mentioned the bike has shimano 600 components on it.If that includes the crank you're all set.Just get short chainring bolts,remove the big ring and use the small one.You can try to flip the spindle of the BB to geta better chainline.If it's still off you'll have to get a shorter BB.
