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Bikes: '72 Motobecane Grand Record, '72 Gitane tandem, '72 Raleigh Super Course, '73 Raleigh Gran Sport, '73 Colnago Super, '76 Fiorelli Coppi, '78 Raleigh SBDU Team Pro, '78 Trek 930, '81 Holdsworth Special 650B, '86 Masi GC, ’94 Bridgestone RB-T
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On a related note, I tried to transplant a NOS Victory short cage to a Nuovo Record RD, to try to get more cog capacity. The problem was that the Victory took a larger mounting bolt than the NR (6mm instead of 5mm if I remember correctly). So swapping a Soma cage (designed for NR/SR) would not work for a Victory, without re-tapping the cage threads. I ended up finding a SR cage so now have a franken-NR/SR RD that can handle 30t freewheel cogs.
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