Help me build a cyclocross
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easiest, +1, just buy another bike, Cross is a 'thing', now lots to choose from.
Your road bike lacks tire clearance for any but a groomed dry course.
Your road bike lacks tire clearance for any but a groomed dry course.
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Would it be easier to take moutian bike and build it into a cylocross bike. You would have more clearance on the rails for mud dirt and crud, still be pretty light with a alum hard tail and you could put a lighter fork on the front.
Or just by a new bike like a Soma double cross.
Or just by a new bike like a Soma double cross.
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Your brake calipers can't accommodate
tires with the proper width for CXing.
tires with the proper width for CXing.
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So do I buy new brakes and tires and call it a day? The question I asked was what I should buy to do the conversion, not whether or not I should do it.
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Sorry, I see that sounded like i was telling you to get another bike, I was actually asking for myself as i have several moutian bikes (older junkers) and one Giant road bike I could use some parts off of, I to am curous what it is that makes a cross bike?
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A new frame (one with more clearance for at least 700 x 30 tires and disc or cantilever brake mounts/bosses), new brakes (either disc or cantilever), and some cross tires. Maybe a new cassette or chainrings, depending on the terrain.
Or if by some miracle you could fit 700 x 30 or larger cross tires without rubbing the chainstays, seatstays, or brake calipers, just buy the tires.
Or if by some miracle you could fit 700 x 30 or larger cross tires without rubbing the chainstays, seatstays, or brake calipers, just buy the tires.
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