Hell, boys and girls, I have gleefully taken hacksaw, grinder, Dremel and Vise Grips to various brazed on bits on a custom Rivendell frame and lived not only to tell the tale but to boast of it. This was when I took my 1995 Waterford-built 559-wheeled Road Custom and made it into a fixie. Tout 753! (Fork was 531.)
I *did* have the much more expensive and even nicer 2003 Curt adapted to fixed gear use by a professional builder, though. Let me tell you, there are few thrills more thrilling than the suspense-cum-excitement of taking a claw hammer to a frame. I've successfully adapted a Nishiki mixte and, latterly, my Worksman grocery trike, to exotic cranksets by beating dimples into the right stay. Excitement apart, the results (obtained with the help of a mandrel) were quite good. Quoting Stalin: "Beat, beat, and beat again!" On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Peter Morgano <uscpeter11...@gmail.com>wrote: > I did the spreading on a raleigh international myself and it was seen as > forbidden for desecrating a classic frame and riv was really against it > although it was pretty simple and my lbs realigned the drops real in two > minutes but that was a 300 dollar frame not 1k.... > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
