As I'm especially poor at the moment, I can't just order the coolest parts. So I'll probably aim for the cheap end now and upgrade later. Anyway this post is about which kind of drivetrain will I go for and not about the tight budged.
The bike was originally fitted with very nice clover themed single crankset. Those older singles are often very beautiful and have varied themes for the cut-outs, while the new single cranksets are made in all the possible colours and styles imaginable to furter fuel the fixie boom. It's harder to find a beautiful double crankset (like Stronglight 107), but I will try nevertheless.
First I must get a new bottom bracket (it's probably shot too), because why would someone use cottered cranks when they don't have to? I mean If they have done it once. (and the cotter bolts cling to your trousers).
My options for a new bottom bracket are:
1. A sealed cartridge JIS-taper one from Velo-Orange
2. A new loose bearing BB from Harris Cyclery
3. A used or ond unused loose bearing BB from somewhere. Stronglight or nervar ought to be good enough.
I've alway liked things I can take a part and ordering stuff from outside of EU is always bothersome. For these reasons, I might go for option 3. The downside for that one is, that where one can stick an ISO-taper crankset on a JIS-taper BB spindle, it's not doable vice versa.
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