Re: Alfine setup questions
- From: landotter <landotter@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 30, 12:47 am, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
If it's the same concept as the 7, I believe you're good to go.
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.
Can't get cheaper than that, really.
Plan B.i would be to not worry about the rear brake so much, and just
run a front disc on whatever old canti-post frame I can find.
With road pull discs, see what Fate deals you. If you find a cool old
canti frame, run a retro looking Tektro CR720 on the rear and a cable
disc on the the front.
.
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