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Old 03-27-24 | 08:50 AM
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From: Greenville SC

Bikes: 1975 Motobecane Grand Jubile, 2020 Holdsworth Competition, 2022 Giant Trance 29 3

My newly refinished road fixed gear.

Amateur built in the '70s from Columbus SL. This bike was very likely designed around super narrow tubulars and the original fork will not clear a 700c x 23mm even on narrow rims (and certainly not on these 18mm internal H Plus Son TB14!) so the fork that's on it is from a 1985 Schwinn Tempo. I've ridden it with this fork before and it behaves quite nicely. Tempo fork ATC is about 10mm longer so it does raise the front end up a bit but it's not terribly noticeable. Kind of nice that it relaxes the geometry more in to road bike territory.

There's good amount of clearance for these 700c x 28mm Michelins which blew up to around 30mm, but I'll probably get some tanwall 23mm or 25mm just to allow me to use a little more of the track end if I want to.

I did have the original fork refinished to match, so maybe someday I'll build a set of track tubular wheels. The original fork will clear a 650b x 32mm with room to spare, though ... build options abound!


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