Road Bike crank set on single speed?
10-20-16, 08:59 AM
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Road Bike crank set on single speed?
I am curious if you can fit a road bike crank set on a single speed bike. I have never really seen anyone try that, I wonder if a compact 50/34t Ultegra 6800 would work. What makes it intriguing to me is that high end road bike crank sets are cheaper than high end track crank sets.
10-20-16, 09:07 AM
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Actually, many singlespeed cranksets such as the Sugino RD2 are just road double chainring cranks with one of the chairings removed and a different BB spindle length to get a good chainline.
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Originally Posted by RMoudatir
I am curious if you can fit a road bike crank set on a single speed bike. I have never really seen anyone try that, I wonder if a compact 50/34t Ultegra 6800 would work. What makes it intriguing to me is that high end road bike crank sets are cheaper than high end track crank sets.
Being a little more vain than that, but not wanting to invest in track-specific cranksets, my conversion has used double cranksets with a shorter bottom bracket in order to get good chainline with the outer ring position, as @TejanoTrackie suggested.
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10-20-16, 11:52 AM
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No reason you can't, really. It's probably going to be tough to find a variety of different sized chainrings, though, if that matters to you.
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You'll have a lot more flexibility in finding chainrings if you go with a 5 arm spider.
10-21-16, 08:53 AM
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No reason you can't, really. It's probably going to be tough to find a variety of different sized chainrings, though, if that matters to you.
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
Not really. TA Specialites makes 1/8" 130bcd chainrings ranging from 44t-52t.
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I know we had a tough time finding a ring for a customer recently whose brother shipped his bike. Was a mess because everyone was out of the chainring we needed and it was for a 4 bolt jobber but the initial one we ordered didn't quite work.
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I have a Shimano 600 crank and got it for $50. Ive seen dura ace square taper road cranks go as low as $70.
