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My daughter saw a crit two weeks ago, and is now interested in entering a crit herself in the 10-12
age group. Being on a constrained budget, I'm thinking how to convert one of yet to be used bikes to
an appropriate contender without spending hundreds of dollars to get her started.
Here's what I have. A 15" Giant triple butted MTB, 26" Fat Boy 100
psi tires. 7 speed, shimano compact rear hub 36 spoke, and Specialized/Wheelsmith 36 spoke front.
I have a number of road bars and stems that will fit the 1" headset. Done.
Brakes are cantilever, shifter is underbar Deore pods index. What are my options here?
Can I use road bike brake levers on c-brakes?
I'm not certain what to do with the shifters except to go used STI. That's bucks.
Switching the chainwheel to dual road chainwheels should be no problem, I have an array of CW's.
Could this work and perform well. (I noticed that her field of competition in junior girls 10-12 is
very small. Probably so small that in medals for the first 5 places, they might have some prizes
left over).
Thanks/
Wynn
age group. Being on a constrained budget, I'm thinking how to convert one of yet to be used bikes to
an appropriate contender without spending hundreds of dollars to get her started.
Here's what I have. A 15" Giant triple butted MTB, 26" Fat Boy 100
psi tires. 7 speed, shimano compact rear hub 36 spoke, and Specialized/Wheelsmith 36 spoke front.
I have a number of road bars and stems that will fit the 1" headset. Done.
Brakes are cantilever, shifter is underbar Deore pods index. What are my options here?
Can I use road bike brake levers on c-brakes?
I'm not certain what to do with the shifters except to go used STI. That's bucks.
Switching the chainwheel to dual road chainwheels should be no problem, I have an array of CW's.
Could this work and perform well. (I noticed that her field of competition in junior girls 10-12 is
very small. Probably so small that in medals for the first 5 places, they might have some prizes
left over).
Thanks/
Wynn