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Downtube mounted gear chager question.
It's just about a year since I acquired a Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate replica
in fixie guise. I've had a couple of attempts at riding it and have decided to reverse engineer the bike back into its geared incarnation - I don't think that fixed wheel is for me. One of the things that's puzzling me is that the mounts for the downtube sufters appear to be just squares of metal with a hole in the middle and the down tube blanks off the the bottom of the hole effectively making it a blind hole. There is insuffient metal in the brazed on squares to allow screw threading to take place. Does anyone have any idea what sort of mechanism fitted onto these squares? Oh and another refinement is that the derailleur cables have tubes let into the frame to allow internal routing of the cables. Will this complicate matters? Cheers Vernon |
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Downtube mounted gear chager question.
vernon wrote:
It's just about a year since I acquired a Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate replica in fixie guise. I've had a couple of attempts at riding it and have decided to reverse engineer the bike back into its geared incarnation - I don't think that fixed wheel is for me. One of the things that's puzzling me is that the mounts for the downtube sufters appear to be just squares of metal with a hole in the middle and the down tube blanks off the the bottom of the hole effectively making it a blind hole. There is insuffient metal in the brazed on squares to allow screw threading to take place. Does anyone have any idea what sort of mechanism fitted onto these squares? Oh and another refinement is that the derailleur cables have tubes let into the frame to allow internal routing of the cables. Will this complicate matters? I wonder if they were standard Campgnolo-pattern DT bosses which someone has partially sawn off as part of the fixie conversion (does it look as if a rear mech hanger has been sawn off too?). Internal routing of gear cables isn't ideal for indexed systems, which like straight runs of bare inner as much as possible, and was probably designed in the days of frcition shift. |
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"Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message ... vernon wrote: It's just about a year since I acquired a Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate replica in fixie guise. I've had a couple of attempts at riding it and have decided to reverse engineer the bike back into its geared incarnation - I don't think that fixed wheel is for me. One of the things that's puzzling me is that the mounts for the downtube sufters appear to be just squares of metal with a hole in the middle and the down tube blanks off the the bottom of the hole effectively making it a blind hole. There is insuffient metal in the brazed on squares to allow screw threading to take place. Does anyone have any idea what sort of mechanism fitted onto these squares? Oh and another refinement is that the derailleur cables have tubes let into the frame to allow internal routing of the cables. Will this complicate matters? I wonder if they were standard Campgnolo-pattern DT bosses which someone has partially sawn off as part of the fixie conversion (does it look as if a rear mech hanger has been sawn off too?). Internal routing of gear cables isn't ideal for indexed systems, which like straight runs of bare inner as much as possible, and was probably designed in the days of frcition shift. Thankfully the rear mech hanger is intact. It's a chromed Campagnolo set up at the rear. I'm wondering if the fixings were a sort of band on arrangement. I've prepared a few poorly focussed images to try to give a better idea... http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Gate/ Another verbal attempt is that the mounts are best described as square pads machined at their rears to accommodate the curvature of the downtube. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of the blocks/pads being sawn down. The bike was almost certainly a friction shift machine - I can live with that. Could it bee that I need new braze ons? The frame needs a respray anyway. |
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http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Gate/
Another verbal attempt is that the mounts are best described as square pads machined at their rears to accommodate the curvature of the downtube. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of the blocks/pads being sawn down. The bike was almost certainly a friction shift machine - I can live with that. If it's any help, the Frankenstein Fixed had band on levers. The 'mounting' is simply a tringular thingy with the flat bit towards the bars. It's job was to simply stop the band on shifters from migrating down the downtube. I'm wondering if your thingies are similar. |
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"Mark T" pleasegivegenerously@warmail*turn_up_the_heat_to_ reply*.com.invalid wrote in message ... http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Gate/ Another verbal attempt is that the mounts are best described as square pads machined at their rears to accommodate the curvature of the downtube. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of the blocks/pads being sawn down. The bike was almost certainly a friction shift machine - I can live with that. If it's any help, the Frankenstein Fixed had band on levers. The 'mounting' is simply a tringular thingy with the flat bit towards the bars. It's job was to simply stop the band on shifters from migrating down the downtube. I'm wondering if your thingies are similar. I'm familiar with the triangular stops. My thingies are massively over-engineered if their sole purpose is to stop band on shifters from sliding down the downtube. |
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vernon wrote:
"Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message ... vernon wrote: It's just about a year since I acquired a Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate replica in fixie guise. I've had a couple of attempts at riding it and have decided to reverse engineer the bike back into its geared incarnation - I don't think that fixed wheel is for me. One of the things that's puzzling me is that the mounts for the downtube sufters appear to be just squares of metal with a hole in the middle and the down tube blanks off the the bottom of the hole effectively making it a blind hole. There is insuffient metal in the brazed on squares to allow screw threading to take place. Does anyone have any idea what sort of mechanism fitted onto these squares? Oh and another refinement is that the derailleur cables have tubes let into the frame to allow internal routing of the cables. Will this complicate matters? I wonder if they were standard Campgnolo-pattern DT bosses which someone has partially sawn off as part of the fixie conversion (does it look as if a rear mech hanger has been sawn off too?). Internal routing of gear cables isn't ideal for indexed systems, which like straight runs of bare inner as much as possible, and was probably designed in the days of frcition shift. Thankfully the rear mech hanger is intact. It's a chromed Campagnolo set up at the rear. I'm wondering if the fixings were a sort of band on arrangement. I've prepared a few poorly focussed images to try to give a better idea... http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Gate/ Another verbal attempt is that the mounts are best described as square pads machined at their rears to accommodate the curvature of the downtube. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of the blocks/pads being sawn down. The bike was almost certainly a friction shift machine - I can live with that. Could it bee that I need new braze ons? The frame needs a respray anyway. You could just use band-on levers - either with a band that fits over the stops (or whatever they are) on the frame, or above or below them. How large are these "pads"? I have some old unwanted Simplex band-on levers with 10mm (approx) square slight recesses on the inside. Not in very god condition, but could be useable. ~PB |
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"Pete Biggs" wrote in message ... You could just use band-on levers - either with a band that fits over the stops (or whatever they are) on the frame, or above or below them. How large are these "pads"? I have some old unwanted Simplex band-on levers with 10mm (approx) square slight recesses on the inside. Not in very god condition, but could be useable. The pads are about 10mm.....just nipping out to the garage to check...(7/16)" seven sixteenths.....calculate....10.94mm. The aforementioned pads are diametrically opposite each other and are in the positions where I'd expect the lever pivots to be. I'm now wondering if there were threaded tubes on the pads that have been filed down because in the harsh LED light of my head torch, I could see the hint of an annulus around each of the holes. Pending the results of further enquiries I could be interested in your band on levers..... Next question.... What is the OLN dimension of a five speed freewheel hub? Are they still available? |
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I have some old unwanted Simplex band-on levers with 10mm (approx) square slight recesses on the inside. Not in very god condition, but could be useable. The pads are about 10mm.....just nipping out to the garage to check...(7/16)" seven sixteenths.....calculate....10.94mm. The aforementioned pads are diametrically opposite each other and are in the positions where I'd expect the lever pivots to be. I'm now wondering if there were threaded tubes on the pads that have been filed down because in the harsh LED light of my head torch, I could see the hint of an annulus around each of the holes. Pending the results of further enquiries I could be interested in your band on levers..... £3 posted, if you are. I'll take some pictures tomorrow so you can see if you like the look of them (the levers are resin). Very light at just 72 grams in total. They incorporate cable adjusters as well. There is some rotational play in one of the levers that would need fixing to stop it being annoying. There is a square hole (separate from the recess I mentioned) that isn't so square any more. Something could be inserted to shim it. Next question.... What is the OLN dimension of a five speed freewheel hub? 120mm - www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sp-ss.html#spacing Are they still available? One on ebay in the States - item 220190887704 - $21 shipping. ~PB |
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On 13 Jan, 22:57, "vernon" wrote:
"Pete Biggs" p...@pomegranateremovehighlyimpracticalfruitbiggs .tc wrote in ... You could just use band-on levers - either with a band that fits over the stops (or whatever they are) on the frame, or above or below them. How large are these "pads"? I have some old unwanted Simplex band-on levers with 10mm (approx) square slight recesses on the inside. *Not in very god condition, but could be useable. The pads are about 10mm.....just nipping out to the garage to check...(7/16)" seven sixteenths.....calculate....10.94mm. *The aforementioned pads are diametrically opposite each other and are in the positions where I'd expect the lever pivots to be. *I'm now wondering if there were threaded tubes on the pads that have been filed down because in the harsh LED *light of my head torch, I could see the hint of an annulus around each of the holes. Pending the results of further enquiries I could be interested in your band on levers..... Next question.... What is the OLN dimension of a five speed freewheel hub? *Are they still available? |
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On 13 Jan, 22:57, "vernon" wrote:
... *I'm now wondering if there were threaded tubes on the pads that have been filed down because in the harsh LED *light of my head torch, I could see the hint of an annulus around each of the holes. That sounds likely to me. I would be tempted to mount a band-on lever set above them, using the stubs as stops. What is the OLN dimension of a five speed freewheel hub? *Are they still available? 120mm. Yes, they are still available new, though the quality isn't as good as the best freewheels of old. You can probably cold-set to a wider spacing and use a six or seven speed, if you want (or scout for an ultra-6). Cheers, W. |
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