I'm the one who bought the Jack Taylor frame from Ray Etherton that is shown in the Cirque Photos on the CR website just posted by Dale. Its a fixed gear, curved seat tube path racer(?) set up for brakes. The frame's supposed to be 1973, though because it has older style dropouts and fork crown, I'm trying to set the bike up as close to '50's or '60's as I can. I just received a Sturmey Archer ASC 3 speed fixed gear hub from Peter Paine to go on this project bike. What I've found is that the ASC hub is spaced at 112.4 mm between locknuts, yet the frame has an approximate 121 mm. rear opening. And with the ASC's included wingnuts, I'm not sure if I can space the hub to fit the drop out spacing and still have enough threads to grip the wingnuts safely. I can open up the wingnuts enough to fit the track dropouts and tighten the frame down to it, but thats almost 9 mm of bending the stays to fit. The right chain stay is crimped for chainring clearance and not the left stay. I'm afraid that it might bend more than the left when just tightening the hub down. I'd prefer not to cold set the frame, because I also want the frame to be able to run a standard fixed set up as well. May I get some advice from our list's experts as to the best solution for using this hub? I'd prefer the hub to just slide in correctly.
Dan Artley, anxious to get my new baby on the road, Parkton, Maryland