|   Found a SS hiding in the spare parts bin. | DamienC
Feb 3, 2003 11:48 AM | | My girlfriend recently retired her Park Pre steel HT and rather than let it sit in the corner of the bike room, a singlespeed conversion seemed in order. If for nothing else, just for sh!ts and grins. Two old cassettes afforded plenty of spacers and the rest of it came together from the parts bin.
Singleator schminglator...an old XT derailleur sans top pulley did the trick for a chain tensioner. I was expecting it to chatter like an annoying office leech next to the water cooler but its been silent running so far.
Total out of pocket cost - about $12 and some change for new grips and brake cables. Its geared to 32:18 for now. Well see how it changes after I get over the mid-Atlantic winter blahs. The setup is kind of Bontrager-ghetto but I think it'll be fun.
The top cap -
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| Nice Instigators!.....(nm) | Shane73
Feb 3, 2003 1:26 PM | | |
| good on ya. cobbled together SSs bring more joy than storebought | club
Feb 3, 2003 2:33 PM | | I always thought the whole point of a SS is to use up old parts and not buy a readymade $2,000 SS. Good karma for you. Just a thought on the tensioner: Any way you can connect a pulley directly to the body, delete the whole cage, run a bolt or sumthin' with a pulley on it where the cage attaches? Then wind the mounting bolt spring in the opposite direction so it pushes up instead of down. You might have to attach the derailleur forward of the hanger lip that the B tension screw pushes against to make it work. I did this with an old Suntour AG (alpine gear) derailleur, the one that went with the 14-38T 5 sp. freewheel. Yes, 38T, it was hot upgrade for Varsitys about 20 years ago. That derailleur has a springloaded pivot arm that attaches the cage to the body, so I put a pulley on the pivot arm. There might be a way you could put a pulley directly onto the cage, that would give you more chain wrap and do away with the unneeded long cage. Like I said just a though. I've got dozens of SS bikes living in boxes, just waiting for me to find free frames so they can be born again. Best thing in those boxes is a bunch of Onza stainless steel 34 and 36t rings, unramped, ideal for longterm SS use. Fausto is in heaven smiling down on ya. |
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