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Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Bikes: 1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo (frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame), 1974 Peugeot UO-8
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Originally Posted by
ginsoakedboy
White Industries makes a high-flange hub that takes a cassette. I think it's intended for tandems. I don't think of the Chris King's as being a terribly high flange -- not as tall as the Phil Wood standard touring hub.
Chris King and I think Phil Wood have high flange hubs for tandems but they are 145mm spacing so you'd be hard pressed to make that work on a road bike that is probably 120-126mm to begin with.
So my wild hair idea for a 60s-70s vintage to modern upgrade would be to cold set the frame to 130mm, use the American Classic hub (with the name removed of course), and Campy 10-speed casette cadmium or chromate/dichromate plated to get that nice vinatge gold color, Campy 10-speed bar-end shifters mounted on the downtube bosses (just saw that in another thread), and whatever was the last Record 10-speed alloy RD they produced (late 90's - early 2000's?). The shifters might be a minor problem since many bikes from that period didn't have braze-ons for shifters but maybe you could mount the levers on a standard Record clamp. That would actually be better I think in terms of appearance. Might need to monkey with the chainring spacing on the crank too but you should be able to make that work.
Hmmm...maybe a project for someday.
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1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo(frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame),
1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame),
1974 Peugeot UO-8, 1988 Panasonic PT-3500, 2002 Bianchi Veloce, 2004 Bianchi Pista