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- help needed-older frame project
- By:admin
- So I have been trying to decide about a new bike for commuting - and I have an older Bianchi cross frame and fork- blue and orange, I think from late 80's. I would like to build it up as a side project, but I'm not sure where to start. It would most likely be fixed or maybe with an internal hub - and it has semi-horizontal dropouts.
Would it cost more to build it up than to just get something new? Time isn't really an issue, so I could cobble parts together from Ebay and the internet, but I'm not sure if it would be worth it.
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A Binachi Cross frame?! Of course it is worth it. I lost an auction for one on ebay some time ago and have had my eye out for one ever since... Watch craig'slist for bikes you can cannibalise for parts but for wheels I would go new so you can get exatly what you want. Nothing beats a unique bike that you build to be exactly the way you want it.
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I think if you are patient you can build it pretty cheap. The two jobs that you might have to hire out to you LBS, BB install and Headset, might be the most expensive single items of the build. But if you keep your eyes open and tell everyone you know about it, you might be surprised. Fer instance, it turns out a guy and my company races. Alot. So he brought me in a box of "junk" he's taken off bikes. I have a perfectly serviceable Shimano BB and 600 crank. Failing that, I would have done what cyclotoine suggests and found a parts bike for that. Of course the Redline 9.2.5 and the Bianchi San Jose aren't that expensive.......
