Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 44,340
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
Getting the brifters on the bars was hard for me. Maybe it's because the bars are old and not the expected shape. Getting the cables router was also hard. The rest was easy. In fact, I think mounting the shifters and routing the cables was half of my time in assembling an entire bike. My components:
Record 9-speed hubs, used
Record 9-speed crankset, used
Miche 10-speed cassette, new
Veloce 10-speed brifters, used
Veloce front and rear derailleurs, new
It works fairly well. I still have trouble with the chain line. The drive side crank is almost touching the fixed cup but the chainrings are too far out to the right.