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Old 11-05-05, 06:58 PM
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All you need to do is replace the rear wheel and shorten the chain. Remove the front and rear derailleur and levers and your back brake if you want.

Buy the rear wheel and cog from IRO and go to your lbs and buy a chain tool to remove the extra links from your existing chain. Master links, a piece that joins two ends of a chain together, are also available at your lbs (or Wal-mart, at least at mine), get one for a 3/32 inch wide chain.

Place the new wheel at about the middle of the slot in the dropouts, and put your chain around the gears and see how many links you have to remove. You'll probably have to use the existing inner chain ring (which is probably about a 39 tooth) so get a 16 tooth track cog so if you decide to replace your bottom bracket and crankset later, you'll be set. Your 1pc crankset should be fine for now.

Put the chain together, tighten up your rear wheel and thats it. If you can fix a flat on your bike, you can do a conversion.
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