custom rearsets

i guess it depends on how much tooling you have. most of the time people who dont have alot of tooling frankenstein parts and pieces together from the original. brazing or welding parts and sections together. sometimes you can flip over an old shifter and use that. sometimes you can use an old shifter by, fabricating an axle to go where the shifter rod came through, and then mounting that to a plate in front of your peg. or you can cut the hole off, and bolt directly though the shifter. sometimes they have to be shortened up. you can use the same plate to mount the peg too. my opinion is rearsets are something you buy just because they can be a pain in the ass to fabricate if you dont have alot of spare parts kicking around or the tooling to do it well. some older bikes lend themselves to converting better than others. if you can find some 305 superhawk pegs, they are primo for a conversion. there are also various kinds of cable conversions you can do too. the superhawk rear brake is cable operated already.

if you decide to buy something, the tarrozis are cheap (i think about or under 200) and you make your own linkages. in other words, they come with the pegs and levers, just no rods or cables. so you get to make some parts, but the hard work is done. you can use all thread or rod and thread it yourself. try www.mcmaster.com for misc parts and pieces. you'll need to give them a business name before they'll ship to you but just make one up. or have it shipped to work. they dont care. as long as you pay em right off. they have tons of linkages and those little ball joint ends, i cant remember what theyre really called.

good luck
jc

i remember breaking a buddy of mines (?) mongoose in half back when i was about 13. he still bitches about it to me. i remember i had a redline with z rims. i saved for seemingly months for those rims. then bent the hell out of them watching them spring back into shape doing 360 and 180 bunnyhops. i also have a gt borrego with and old rock shox. i used to ride from winchester to boston almost everyday to work. that was when i had my bianchi mt bike. living next to the fells provided plenty of oppertunity to to mtn bike. when i rode to work, sometimes id come back on mass ave and go through arlington. a nice ride. ive done the tour de graves in boston way before they shortened it to 20 miles or whatever stupid length it is/was many times. it used to be 40 miles to all of the grave yards around boston, and id ride to the meeting in the common from winchester then back home afterwards. i gave myself a concussion when i crashed riding to work one day. i was lost for 15 mins. when i got to work i didnt even know if i still worked there. i had to ask at the desk. i have faceplanted onto concrete and busted my front teeth. still broken. broke a rear derailer crossing atlantic ave at summer street. face kissed the bars, and i went down hard in the intersection. of course at rush hour, trying to beat the light, round 515 in the afternoon. that one hurt too. so ive taken plenty of abuse, and those are just the recent ones! so, how do you keep the rims true?? i still cant figure that one out.

joe