Thanks!!
The build is going slow. I'm wanting to have it ready for our next race on May 18th. www.rockcrusher.org
I have found out the hard way that most of the components off of a Trek 4300 frame won't work on a Haro frame. I guess I hadn't done my homework.
Finding out what thread size the V brake post for the rear has been the most difficult.
I thought they were 10mmx1 threads, but it now appears that they could be 1.25 or maybe even 1.5. I'm going too use a 10mmx1 tap on the one boss that I crossed threaded trying to install a V brake post from the Trek. If the "new" threads hold for a 10mmx1 post, then I'll use the tap to the other boss.
Then it's a guessing game on the bottom bracket, I ordered a 68x115 and 68x118. Hopefully one of them will be the correct size to use with the Bontrager cranks off of my Fuel 70.
This is as far as I have gotten till more parts arrive.
Here's a few images of a set of Giga X Pipe Stylo Cranks that I just added to my V4.
I bought them from JensonUSA.
Went on perfect and didn't even have to do any adjustments to the front derailer.:thumbsup:
Not sure. For the next 2 weekends at the Noxubee Trails we've got work days planned to reroute a trail from a mudslide.
I'll be sure to post on the WAMBA email list next time we head that way.
While I'm here.....
Last week I installed a LX Rear Derailleur. Works great and looks really cool.
Wow, I just got that same frame off Ebay this spring! Long story why I bought it, will not be using it for the original purpose. Trying to decide what to do with it. At one point I thought I was going to buy my 12 year old a 13" framed bike then move him up to the V4 frame when he outgrew it, but ended up with a 15" frame so it would be a lot of work to move over all his components for a marginally larger frame (the Haro is a 16").
So how good is this frame? I know I am opening up a can of worms asking guys in the Haro forum if a Haro frame is better than the one on his (my son's) Windsor Cliff 4900, but its worth asking I guess. Doing a scratch build is just WAY to expensive for me, just as a price comparison exercise I took the specs of the Dawes Haymaker 1500 from Bikesdirect and went Ebay/online shopping for the same compenents and came up with a price of about $800 to match the component spec of the $420 Dawes.
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