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Old 11-28-19, 11:45 AM
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jackbombay
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Some more details on the tall bike, the chain stays are a fork that I cold set to 135, so the wheel goes into the back of the bike, but it works well enough. I did align the dropouts after spreading the fork that far. Yea, I did have to hit it really hard with a 4 pound sledge to get it to move that far, I ran a hole saw through a 2x4 then cut the 2x4 in half so I had a piece of wood ton the fork that matche the radius of the fork leg that I was hitting with the hammer, I moved one leg at a time to maintain symmetry.

Some may also notice the 54 tooth ring on it, yea, my buddy that isn't even a biker had that kicking around years ago, and gave it to me! It is 110 BCD too, odd ring for sure. And the small ring is a 24 tooth. My current road bike wheels have an 11/36 cassette, so that gives me an %805 gear range, Ha!
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