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Want to build a raleigh Reynolds 501/531 single speed has anyone any experience or actually has a donor frame as I can't find one?
Cheers
T
Ideally, you'd be looking at a 1970's track frame, but they can fetch high prices these days. Something like this:
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Or, if you can't find anything with tack dropuyst, then look for something with dropouts like the ons with simling smileys next to them:
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As you'll need to be able to move the wheel back and forth to take up any chain slack (chain should have no moe than about an inch of up and down movement, set it at it's 'tightest' spot by rotating the cranks with the chain on)/
Older frames will be 1" sterer ube, so decent headsets are more digfficult to me by. Seatpots may be 25.4mm/1". Don't buy a Peugeot, as some frames have a seatpost size unique to that brand, and you will never fid one.