| Re: Went and bought that Hoo Koo I was asking about
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:52:50 +0000 (UTC), Booker C. Bense
<bbense+rec.bicycles.misc.Jan.10.05@telemark.slac. stanford.edu> wrote:
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>In article <rg54u0dlrv725lekf73s90h59l3lqvvhqr@4ax.com>,
>RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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>>My initial impulse was to just go single speed, but that perverse rear brake is
>>right where the chain would go.
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>_ I tried that on mine for a while with an old campy derailler as
>a tensioner. Didn't really work all that well due to not being
>able to get a decent chainline just by redishing the rear wheel.
>IMHO, single speed with a tensioner seems like the worst of
>all possible worlds. All the weight branch catching possiblities
>of a derailler and none of the gears. My version of that bike
>has vertical dropouts.
I'm thinking much the way you are. What's the point if it isn't light, sleek and
simple. Even with the vertical drops, a 38x18 looks on paper like it might just
work.
A new freewheel is only about 12$ and the only thing wrong with the der is a
broken adjuster so fixing the thing isn't a big deal.
Ron
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