Originally Posted by
IAmSam
I'm sorry but a lot of this problem does not quite make sense to me so I do look forward to pics...
FWIW unless you don't know a mountain bike from a road bike if your frame is indeed a roadie (that wasn't respaced)...120mm rear tells me it is/was originally 5-speed. Are you able to tell us what brand/model frame you have?
And I am pretty sure that there were old UK bikes like Raleigh among others, that used wider bottom bracket shells than standard British/Italian sizes - like even up to 75-76mm wide.
But that should mean that as a result, you need a longer-than-normal spindle to accommodate for the wider BB shell - not end up with your chainring too far out.
Maybe it's just me, but I won't use any kind of spacer-rigging on my drive train. My first thought is that if you are sure that your description of the situation is accurate you should carefully measure it all up and invest in a different bottom bracket with a shorter spindle and the right taper to solve your problem. But on 2nd thought...that crank
I once got talked into trying to help a buddy build his conversion from an unknown frame and we constantly ran into this kind of crap. Cured me of ever touching one of the damned things again...
You may be on to something here. The frame is a Western Flyer Fleetwood 10 speed 27". It was my Dad's when he was in college then I used if off and on as a kid. Dug it out of the barn and noticed it had horizontal dropouts. I must say that I was expecting that a fixed gear crank on the right spindle would land somewhere near the same plane as a, what seems to be fairly normal, flipflop hub. Granted Fyxation may not be top shelf but I haven't seen any horrid reviews of this crankset. Their customer service is supposed to email me back
Fairly certain the frame is aligned just fine as I rode it for years and it always seemed to ride fine to me. Granted, I'm not the most discerning cyclist.