Originally Posted by
Locomotief
Thanks for all the replies guys!
The Visser Vainqueur is a keeper. You guys convinced me. It will take a while before I can start this project. I first want to finish my french folding bike. But I'll slowly start collecting parts.
A while back I took my cargo bike to the dump and found these wheels in the dumpster. They might end up on the visser.
Really nice potential here, a lot of great details!
I would be careful with modern rear wheels. The spacing between the rear dropouts can be very different from 1950’s bikes to 2020’s. The spacing for the early stuff can be below 120mm, where 130mm is common since 1985 or so, and wider is becoming more common now in the ‘20s.
To fit a wider one the rear triangles need to be flexed outward. This is always stressful, but for new not-rusted steel it’s kind of a well known thing. A big bendup, like 120 to 130, is questionable even for new, and I would worry about creating cracks in this old beauty. I would just overhaul the old wheel (and other) bearings to get them as smooth as possible and do a few ides to assess things.