{"id":19,"date":"2009-08-19T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:43:07","slug":"ewr-project-yard-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"EWR Project – Yard Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh the joys of retro builds, one minute your are Soaring Angelic and the next you are Fathoming Hell when you hit a glitch, still, these seemingly insurmountable obstacles are there to be overcome…<\/span>

This particular bogey is perhaps to be expected, my frame is 1994 and therefore on the cusp of the transition to Compact Drive (or MicroDrive if you worked for Sun Tour <\/span>\"\") from the long established Standard Drive 5-bolt 110 mm\/74 mm BCD. <\/span>

Me being a dumbass goat didn’t factor this in and blindly specced some nice 110 BCD Syncros Revolution cranks (see pix below), lovingly spent an hour putting together the chainset from a bag of bits, offered them up to the sufficiently long enough BB (118mm where Syncros Revolution’s <\/span>should<\/span> only need 117mm), tightened up the Crank O’s and….BUMMER, the rings wanted to eat the chainstay <\/span>\"\". Overlooking the obvious (well I am a goat <\/span>\"\") I showed this to my buddy and we came to the conclusion that the chainstay ‘indent’ (what the hell is the official name for that?) is positioned for Compact Drive 5-bolt 94 mm\/58 mm BCD <\/span>\"\"

This was confirmed by offering up a 22\/32\/42 chainset which fitted nice and snug in the indent with sufficient clearance. So, the search is now on for a very rare beast indeed, Syncros Revolution Cranks in Compact Drive. I’ve only seen two sets for sale in as many years so this could prove a difficult task…..onwards with the search!!<\/span>

On a plus note I’ve managed to score a wheelset more suited to this build, sure the Campag Mirox were nice but not really EWR material. The current replacement is a set of Mavic 231CD’s on Shimano DX hubs with 7sp cassette. <\/span>

More build pix coming soon….<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh the joys of retro builds, one minute your are Soaring Angelic and the next you are Fathoming Hell when you hit a glitch, still, these seemingly insurmountable obstacles are there to be overcome…This particular bogey is perhaps to be …<\/p>\n

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