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Familiar with Sheldon Brown's website? Spindle length is part of the crankset spec, he has a halfway decent database here. More on chainline here

Got some marzocchi love going on

^Good price. I wouldn't say a Trek era GF is a "gotta have it +1" sorta frame but it could easily knock at least one of my primary riders out of rotation

A lot of shimano chainrings have sawed off teeth to help with shifting, not sure there's a thing wrong with those chainrings. My main thing is, look at em edge-on and make sure the teeth are aligned and go *real* easy on em till you're sure you aren't gonna get chainsuck I kinda like shimano...

Favorite vintage tire that's still in production: Panaracer Fire. "Favorite" is a strong word, I don't feel they ride very well, OK off road I guess. Panaracer is still making their Smoke/Dart combo. All of em look the part. Favorite el cheapo tire: Probably the Moheiga beach cruiser tires...

DrDave's mid-90s Venturi, Pan-European edition Frame by FRM out of Columbus Genius tubing Sachs New Success groupset Never-ending build thread here

Ok here's the Pan European edition. FRM frame, headset and bars. Complete Sachs New Success group set. New Success hubs laced to 230 rims. The brakes are beautiful, super nice levers. Not sold on the grip shifters but I'll take her for a ride tomorrow just so I can say I did

I've had the most luck balancing comfort and performance with MX bars or at least MX style bars with a 50mm stem. Usually winds up being 22.2mm bars with a BMX stem. That's my preference for off-road riding If sticking with the Velocity stem, and with an emphasis on comfort, and for street...

Yeah I'm gonna put it in the Euro BOTM in Nov. Debating between version 2.1 and 2.2 but it'll be something. Keep meaning to do a Campy build but am uncertain I will live long enough to get all the parts together; kind of inclined to do as you did, just start slowly mixing it in with the...

Almost done with the Pan-European build for the November BOTM. Complete Sachs New Success groupset. Hubs, shifters, everything. NOS brakes.

I remember when my daughter was younger, but no less sarcastic, she asked why I called it "mountain biking" because there are no mountains where we live. She suggested "tree biking" cuz I kept running into them. Depending on the time of year, "swamp biking" might have worked. Either way, I...

Main thing that strikes me about apparel is, I guess they don't make real chamois cycling shorts any more. You won't hear me exclaiming "cham-WOW!" these days, no sir. The only good news is, ever since I got up off my wallet and bought a brooks (after 60 years, finally got around to it) I...

Very helpful. Gave me some good pointers on how to inspect an old frame

That was a montana gold project. Montana primer, yellow/orange/red fade front-to-back with a black underbelly, montana crackle effect over. The crackle effect paint is convenient but dreadfully temperature dependent and very difficult to get uniform thickness around a tube. Do it again, I'd...

I painted this '92 LavaDome cuz I didn't think it looked enough like lava. Wife kinda screwed up her face and said, "It looks like an alligator." I like that even better.

Not just a gorgeous build but a practical bike, kinda thing you look forward to riding, ya know? Those are some fine bikes. You did it justice imo, that's just a fantastic build. Those Kooka cranks are just *mwah* exquisite

Haha MX bar all day long, is this a trick question??? Well OK, maybe the nitto b80whatever maybe. Which I will admit is very pretty. Part of it is, I just think a BMX stem works. Works aesthetically and works geometry wise, so, paired with some nice Renthals it gets me comfy but doesn't...

Here's the rundown -- First thing to check is, do you have an 8-9-10spd freehub. If not, the easiest way to get to 1x is to buy a wide-range Sunrace 7spd cassette and a cheap narrow wide chainring off Amazon or Ali. A lot of vintage derailleurs will work with that; Shimano tends to punch...

Depends on what you're up to. My current favorite off-road bike is an old steel 26er I modded out, in fact I like it so much I sold my 29er, now granted that was mainly to free up room and money for more vintage bikes ... but still, for the particular off-road trails I'm riding these days...

-- Squid Bikes There might have been alcohol involved.