Originally Posted by
DaCox
This might not be popular for a vintage bike thread but any opinion on a newer group set I should/could get for this frame? Shimano or sram? I’ve been looking into them and dang are they expensive. Would there be any compatibility problems?
The minor issues you will encounter are:
1. The 126mm rear spacing- which means you will have to run a Shimano hub with a 7 speed freehub body. Or alternatively a freewheel hub with a 7 speed freewheel.
2. The nutted brakes. Modern groupsets all use recessed bolts. Luckily you can get Tektro dual pivot brakes with nutted mounting.
3. if this bike has a French bottom bracket you would have to run a sq taper BB . In other words you won’t be able to use the latest external bearing hollow tech type crankset. No big loss.