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03-17-08 | 06:47 PM

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tealeaves

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From: Central District, Seattle, WA

Bikes: 1979 Schwinn Spitfire 5

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Originally Posted by jet sanchEz

Nope, not a good candidate for conversion. It is a cruiser and is designed for cruisin', so it will have some very lax angles. Also, it wil be a heavy bike and the spacing will be pretty wide due to the large internally geared hub, so you would have to get all whacky with spacers. As the other guy said, it is great as it is.

That said, there are some pretty decent candidates on your local CL.

I think this bike is perfect as it is but it would be a better bike than the JC Penney thing to convert: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/609557075.html

Ditto: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/609304127.html

Again: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/608651967.html

How tall are ya? That gives us a better idea of what size you will need.

ah yeah I saw all those and they were nice but too big.
I'm barely 5'5" with a 30" inseam so I'm pretty sure I need something around 50-52cm?
I was also looking at this frame:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/607449948.html

but I wasn't sure how much more I'd be spending since it's JUST the frame and I'm doing this with my tax return.

maybe this would be better?:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/bik/608854612.html

might still be too big though. most of the ones I've liked are 56cm. damn being so small! haha.

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