Re: Re: [CR]Gran Turismo rear der. mounted to Campy 1010a dropout?

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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:12:44 -0600 (CST)
From: <smwillis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [CR]Gran Turismo rear der. mounted to Campy 1010a dropout?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, FujiFish1@aol.com


Try turning the back nut and only hold the front bolt or you will break the spring thingie.
>From: FujiFish1@aol.com
>Date: 2007/12/30 Sun PM 03:35:53 CST
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Gran Turismo rear der. mounted to Campy 1010a dropout?
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>Steven Willis also mentioned that. I was hoping that the one here was
>sleeved too, but alas, it is just a simple back nut, six-sided and flat on front
>and back. In addition ... MAN! ... I'm a fair bike mechanic, but that pivot
>bolt just didn't want to thread out of the black adaptor ... it felt like it
>was tightening the internal spring while trying to loosen. The threads are
>clearly standard right.
>
>After fighting to less than an eighth of a turn, I paused and thought. Is
>there any reason not to simply mount the unit & adaptor, rearward of the
>integral hanger, and pretend the latter isn't there? Seems to me it will lengthen
>the chainline, and I think I can afford the weight penalty. :)
>
>Here are a few shots of this tried on, although the back nut is not yet
>replaced for actual use:
><http://picasaweb.google.com/Torp84SL/Other>
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>So whadd'ya guys think ... will this work ok? I realize it gives me just a
>bit more funk edge on Harvey, but let's be realistic ... can anybody really,
>ever, out-funk the original FunkMeister Harvey? Really now? :)
>
>Hope this solves it. Thanks for everyone's help!
>
>Ciao,
>Mark Agree
>Southfield MI USA
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>In a message dated 12/30/2007 3:02:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
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>Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:45:44 -0600
>From: John Thompson <john@os2.dhs.org>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Gran Turismo rear der. mounted to Campy 1010a dropout?
>Message-ID: <4777E758.2060505@os2.dhs.org>
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>FujiFish1@aol.com wrote:
>> I had finally figured out what to do with a mid level (at best), approx.
>> 1970 Torpado road bike that I got from Matteo, some years ago. It is
>orange,
>> with long Campy dropouts. My new scheme is to use a nice honkin' Gran
>Turismo
>> rear, Gran Sport front, bar end shifters, weighty Campy steel three arm
>> crank, and other appropriate items for the theme. Great. The problem is
>that the
>> rear unit I have is pre-mounted to a black steel hanger, with the
>beautiful
>> red-C'd bolt ... that has threading significantly smaller than the
>mounting
>> hole in the dropout.
>
>My Gran Turisimo has a sleeved nut that threads onto the upper pivot
>bolt from behind the dropout (rather like the way many Simplex
>derailleurs mounted). I just mounted it on a Campy 1010B dropout without
>much difficulty. The hardest part was preloading the upper pivot spring
>whilst tightening the sleeved nut on the other side.
>
>--
>John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
>Appleton WI USA
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