Originally Posted by
Nightshade
"i'm in the process o slowly building up a 2x5 Worksman with rim brakes."
Why? Worksman offers a drum brake that is bullet proof which is light years better than any rim brake!!
Why? When you've got more INB frames than you do sense, the minds plays tricks on you and the experiments get more bizarre as you go.... Worksman offers that Grimeca-style front drum; the rear drum they had, last I checked, was a Sturmey-Archer unit. I already have a Worksman INB with 70mm Sturmey drums, front and rear. I'm not a huge fan of the Grimeca-type Worksman drum, b/c that thing is even heavier than the Stumey-Archer drum.... and every drum brake I've ever seen handily outweighed an XT v-brake.
Further, none of'm outperform an XT v-brake, either. On trails, heat becomes an issue for drums... ask me how I know. =P
I'm building a tenspeed Worksman for trail riding, and the only OE stuff will be the frame itself and the headset cups, which I'm using in my 1.125" threadless conversion. Running a Surly fork. It'll be an exercise in kludge mayhem, and I have fun doing that sort of thing. Don't even ask about my fixed gear/ disc brake INB, which will be done by August. I'll post pictures....
So, yeah, no
good reason. I just look at these builds as a mind-teaser/puzzle kind of exercise, then I have fun riding them.