Random questions
#1
Banned.
Thread Starter
Random questions
1. Are there any old 4130 or better roadie's that came with disc brakes? Is the introduction of disc post introduction of aluminum frames.
2. What is the highest sprocket count for rear cassettes on steel road bikes of the 80s and 90s? Highest I've seen was 7 for a 14 speed bike.
3. Are there any 4130 or better road bikes of the 80s and 90s that came with vertical dropouts?
2. What is the highest sprocket count for rear cassettes on steel road bikes of the 80s and 90s? Highest I've seen was 7 for a 14 speed bike.
3. Are there any 4130 or better road bikes of the 80s and 90s that came with vertical dropouts?
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 20,305
Mentioned: 130 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3464 Post(s)
Liked 2,834 Times
in
1,998 Posts
Disc brakes (current appearance) started with off-road bikes with suspension. Let’s call it 1990’s.
8 cogs in back began in the 1980’s. Really required a freehub to avoid bent axles.
8 cogs in back began in the 1980’s. Really required a freehub to avoid bent axles.
#5
Full Member
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 409
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 48 Post(s)
Liked 32 Times
in
24 Posts
Discs + road didn’t really come till deep into the 2000s.
Discs + Decent-Steel Road has been a thing since about 2010. A lot of brands had at least one, often times it’d be made of Reynolds 853 with a carbon fork, some brands like All-City were pretty much just “Decent Steel and Disc Brakes” as their niche for a few years.
Surly Disc Truckers are 4130, I think.
2) the 80s OEM maxed at 8 speed, 90s was 9 speed mostly then 10 toward the end. Any 130mm rear end can take an 11 speed cassette.
3) seems like most okay-to-great frames were vertical by 1991.
Discs + Decent-Steel Road has been a thing since about 2010. A lot of brands had at least one, often times it’d be made of Reynolds 853 with a carbon fork, some brands like All-City were pretty much just “Decent Steel and Disc Brakes” as their niche for a few years.
Surly Disc Truckers are 4130, I think.
2) the 80s OEM maxed at 8 speed, 90s was 9 speed mostly then 10 toward the end. Any 130mm rear end can take an 11 speed cassette.
3) seems like most okay-to-great frames were vertical by 1991.
Last edited by MattoftheRocks; 02-22-24 at 07:47 PM.
Likes For MattoftheRocks:
#6
Banned.
Thread Starter
Nice.
Another random question. Did Schwinn make any split tube cruiser or single tube klunker in a quality tubing? Or were those bikes like the VW bug of the early bike area. If not what company of bike series would you consider to that.
After recently learning more specifically about tubing and different joining methods and frame charactistcs in general. I'm looking at my dads Chicago Schwinn like 🥴
Another random question. Did Schwinn make any split tube cruiser or single tube klunker in a quality tubing? Or were those bikes like the VW bug of the early bike area. If not what company of bike series would you consider to that.
After recently learning more specifically about tubing and different joining methods and frame charactistcs in general. I'm looking at my dads Chicago Schwinn like 🥴
#7
Full Member
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 409
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 48 Post(s)
Liked 32 Times
in
24 Posts
Nice.
Another random question. Did Schwinn make any split tube cruiser or single tube klunker in a quality tubing? Or were those bikes like the VW bug of the early bike area. If not what company of bike series would you consider to that.
After recently learning more specifically about tubing and different joining methods and frame charactistcs in general. I'm looking at my dads Chicago Schwinn like 🥴
Another random question. Did Schwinn make any split tube cruiser or single tube klunker in a quality tubing? Or were those bikes like the VW bug of the early bike area. If not what company of bike series would you consider to that.
After recently learning more specifically about tubing and different joining methods and frame charactistcs in general. I'm looking at my dads Chicago Schwinn like 🥴
The only one that I think Chicago Schwinn did was the Paramountain Ned Overend.
for curvy tubes but good riding, the first thought is Ingliss/Retrotec. A few hours/days surfing cycleexif and radavist might turn up some others.
I think it’d be cool to throw $1500-2500 in parts at a Walmart Beach Cruiser to make it both trail worthy and look like a 70s downhill racer.
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 915
Bikes: 1964(?) Frejus Tour de France, 1967(?) Dawes Double Blue, 1979 Trek 710, 1982 Claud Butler Dalesman, 1983 Schwinn Paramount Elite, 2014 Brompton, maybe a couple more
Mentioned: 9 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 312 Post(s)
Liked 680 Times
in
332 Posts
I mean, yeah, but I see a lot of Wal-Mart beach cruisers at the co-op. The joints of a Walmart beach cruiser from the past 10 years or so are not likely to hold up under the stress of bolting new pieces on, much less going downhill fast. I guess you could buy 100 Wal-Mart cruisers and test to find the one that was made right. As Yogi Berra said, in theory there is no difference between theory and practice - but in practice there is.
Likes For albrt:
#9
Banned.
Thread Starter
Different random question. If I want to buy a black headset for my 86 bianchi sport sx. What size am I looking at? I mean the bearing cups that press into the head tube