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Miche Primato Pista bits
Hi all,
I did a nice 70km ride on the weekend with a bunch of local troublemakers, one of whom rode the whole time without once coasting. This strange behaviour got me to thinking, I've got an old steel roadie in the garage with those much sought after horizontal dropouts, and a rear triangle that was brazed together when five speed freewheels were plentiful, that's been quietly gathering dust since I built my go faster aluminium massively overgeared clicky lever bike. So I thought about it a bit, and figured it'd be lots of fun to put track cranks and wheels on it, and throw away that nasty back brake for ever, and see if I can break myself of this terrible coasting habit. Further down the track (pun entirely intended) I could go and talk to a framebuilder and get a real track frame (or perhaps even a box of tubes and lugs), put my shiny new cranks and wheels on it, and see how much I can scare myself going around in circles (but always pedalling of course). In any case, I cast around on the net looking for suitable candidates, and decided Record is ridiculously expensive, as is Dura-Ace. Next down the list seems to be the Miche Primato bits, which seem at first glance to strike a good compromise between shinyness and expense. Are they as nice as they look? I see they use cartridge bearings. What do I do when said bearings disintegrate? I'm used to my nice Campy cup & cone hubs where one simply pulls everything apart and gives it all a scrub and some nice new grease occasionally, and one can buy new balls and new cones should the need arise. The next issue is that the cranks are 135mm PCD, whereas most other track cranks seem to be 144. Is this likely to cause grief? Finally, is it an issue squeezing the back end of a 126mm wide bike down to 120mm? It's had 130mm wide wheels forced into it before without significant complaint. Anyways, I was hoping to con some advice out of others who use these bits. Regards, Suzy |
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