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Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Bikes: 1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo (frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame), 1974 Peugeot UO-8
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Originally Posted by
Hoopdriver
My 72 UO8 came with 27x1 1/4 tires. Seems like a reasonable assumption that the frame was designed for these. On the other hand, it's also reasonable that the US market was supplied different sized wheels. Still, I would expect that the French would have used 700c instead of 650b.
Keep in mind too that the stay crimps may have been done the same distance from the end of the tube so that when the BB end of the tube was trimmed, the resulting position would vary. Also, the crimps could have been done by hand so more variability.
All possibilities. Let's see what my experiments show this weekend. It may be that the 700C wheels & tires line up perfectly. There is definitely enough brake reach for it.
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1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo(frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame),
1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame),
1974 Peugeot UO-8, 1988 Panasonic PT-3500, 2002 Bianchi Veloce, 2004 Bianchi Pista