130mm or 135mm rear spacing

[dyna-ti]

Heres the link with all the pics but as its the rear heres that pic[saves jumping back and forth]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ernational

 

[hamster]

Keyhole stays, top tube cable routings, never had canti bosses. That's definitely a late 90's frame in my view.

 

[dyna-ti]

Keyhole stays, top tube cable routings, never had canti bosses. That's definitely a late 90's frame in my view.

that pic of the stays is a bit mis-leading :? in reality they are very straight much like a road bike and only kick out in the last 4" or so

 

[Andy R]

It may be my eyes or the camera angle (but I don't think so) but that LH dropout looks all bent to buggery - the inside of the dropout and the inside of the caliper mount should be in the same plane (and at right angles to the wheel spindle) and that doesn't look as if they are (the dropout itself looks bent inwards).

 

[dyna-ti]

It may be my eyes or the camera angle (but I don't think so) but that LH dropout looks all bent to buggery - the inside of the dropout and the inside of the caliper mount should be in the same plane (and at right angles to the wheel spindle) and that doesn't look as if they are (the dropout itself looks bent inwards).

I've taken that on board Andy and phoned the mechanic[bikes left with him]
He'll look at it over the weekend and use the hope tool to see whats amiss

I have complete confidence in this mechanic,he does all the couriers bikes and some of the local road clubs.
I do wish the fellow that sold it had been a bit more upfront about these issues.But being gumtree theres not a lot i can do. :?

The welding on this really is excellent ,overall its a nice looking frame,possible with some road heritage so i will go to just about any length to make it operational.

 

[MikeD]

The actual brake mount looks bent in that pic too. What happens if you put a straight edge across the two brake mount holes and the dropout?

 

[dyna-ti]

The actual brake mount looks bent in that pic too. What happens if you put a straight edge across the two brake mount holes and the dropout?

TBH i didnt notice anything amiss with the dropouts,but i suppose if it were bent inwards it would indeed look like that.
Its also possible that the frame was meant for 135mm spacing and the original owner forced it in for a 130mm hub :?

Anyway,all these points i've taken on board and when im better and can visit the shop [probably monday] then we can see how were going to rectify it

as they never made disc brakes and wouldn't have a display frame with those on

Yes i understand they didnt do discs,but most bikes have mismatched components.
For instance you often see hayes brakes mixed in with shimano or sram groupsets

 

[mikee]

i was gonna say that but sky broadband is a bit intermittent the noo

 

[pete_mcc]

There are two Italian companies that use/used drop outs and tapering stays like that, one is de Rosa, but they are a bit roadie, the other is Bianchi. Bianchi made their ti bikes out of their reparto corse workshop and you can normally drop them a line to ask using that serial number.

Can't see why campag would have had that made though as they never made a disc brake, they did make hubs that could be used with discs though - the first fisher rs1 used campag rear tandem hubs with screw on mountain cycles prostops.[/i]

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

What bike is it?

Up till about 93 there were plenty of MTBs with 130mm rear ends. 135 only became standard when 8-speed came in.

Correction 7 speed was the beginning of 135mm OLN spacing.