So I have this old schwinn paramount mountain bike.


Its in good shape, but the cantis are driving me nuts, so I'm going with v-brakes. however, the shifter pods are integrated into the levers...so I'd need new shifter pods too.

I dont feel like doing that. so, what I've decided to do instead is to make it SS. I would just take off the out outter and inner rings and leave it at that, but what fun would that be? So I'm thinking about putting the middle ring on the outside and buying a new BB spindle to space it over.

does anyone know how much shorter I'd need to have the BB spindle be to do this? I'd be a lot of help to me.