Re: Alfine setup questions

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:47:25 +0000, Ryan Cousineau wrote:

I've got a new Alfine drivetrain and I'm adding it to an existing bike
(a steel road bike with horizontal dropouts).

For reasons that are some combination of pragmatic, quixotic, and daft,
I'm contemplating setting up the hub so that instead of the hub's cable
attachment arm being roughly parallel to the chainstay, it would be
roughly parallel to the seatstay. Then I'll run the cable down the
seatstay using a full housing and some zip-ties. That orientation is
provided, BTW, by the anti-turn washers for vertical dropouts.

Is there any danger or detriment in this? As far as I can tell, the
cable doesn't get any closer to the cable and cog than it would in the
normal position: I'm using the Shimano cog with an integrated guard,
too.

Bonus question: any nominations for a really cheap 700c/29er singlespeed
frame with disc mounts? I'm plotting fiendishly to move this project
into Phase II sometime in early Fall: Mud-cheating cyclocross cheater
bike, with disc brakes and the Alfine hub. The current cheapest nominee
seems to be an NYCBikes CrossSpeed II.


Jenson has a $115 frame with an eccentric bottom-bracket:

http://www.jensonusa.com/store/product/FR405A01-Zion+737Ebb+Frame.aspx

Do you know if the CrossSpeed II requires a suspension-corrected fork?
It's pretty amazing to find a frame with Rohloff dropouts for only $200.
Plus, you get to throw around this NYCBikes slogan:

"It's got chunks of lesser bikes in it's [sic] stool."

http://www.nycbikes.com/item.php?item_id=566

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