{"id":573,"date":"2013-04-28T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-05-01T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:13:08","slug":"russ-sr-semi-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/russ-sr-semi-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ’ SR Semi Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past couple weeks, Russ and I used free time to overhaul his blue SR Semi Pro. It is now complete. Along with Branden, we took a Saturday afternoon shakedown ride to The Shack<\/a> in Playa del Rey where we ate burgers, enjoyed a Ranger IPA and chatted with an interesting young man who claimed his office job was rating online porno films. Anyway, about the bike…<\/p>\n

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For casual use, I suggested ditching the gears. After a few tests, Russ settled on 40 x 17, or around 64 gear inches. I like the higher cadence of my Takara, which is set at a lower 55 gear inches. We maintained a similar pace on the ride.<\/p>\n

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To switch to single speed, we purchased a cog and spacers kit from Crow Cycle<\/a> to convert the cassette hub (not original). Other improvements include:<\/p>\n

-Panaracer Pasela 700Cx35 (replaced the heavier 28mm Vittoria tires)
\n-Standard Brooks B17 honey saddle
\n-Velo Orange Milan handlebar
\n–Velo Orange alloy chainguard<\/a> (The 44t model fit the 40t chainring well.)
\n-Velo Orange brake cables and blue housing
\n-Velo Orange Kraton basket weave grips to match the saddle
\n-cheap alloy pedals (also from Crow – surprisingly nice quality)
\n-chrome single chainring bolts
\n-swapped the seat post with an SR rain catcher Laprade from my spares
\n-overhauled bottom bracket and headset<\/p>\n

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Edit: We will rotate the tires to align the label with the valves. Whoops.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s the bike before the work.
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Over the past couple weeks, Russ and I used free time to overhaul his blue SR Semi Pro. It is now complete. Along with Branden, we took a Saturday afternoon shakedown ride to The Shack in Playa del Rey where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,8],"tags":[23,9,22,155,26,154,135,156,140],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-projects","category-bicycles","tag-1980s","tag-bicycles-2","tag-blue","tag-brooks","tag-japanese","tag-panaracer","tag-russ","tag-sr-semi-pro","tag-velo-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garrettbelmont.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}