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Old 11-10-15 | 09:07 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;

If you can find any Zeus or other 118mm BCD chainrings, you can elongate their mounting holes inward by one mm and mount them on your 116mm spinder. I once did that with a standard road 130mm BCD ring and my 128mm Nervar Star spider, because I wanted 52-44 instead of the 52-42 I had. Worked like a champ.

42/12 = 94.5 gear-inches, the same as the 49/14 I use on my Capo Sieger, and which I have happily used in the past on other bikes, as well. I have geared all of my road bikes between 93.5 (45/13) and 98 (47/13) on top, and I rarely wish I had something higher. With chainring sets such as 45-42, 49-46, 47-38, and 50-42, my short cage rear mechs are quite happy with the chain wrap they need to accommodate.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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