SOOO strange you should mention those huge beach cruiser Tektros. I had just ordered a front one from Amazon to try a 27" to 26" conversion after popping a front rim/tire on the 420 and thinking "why not?". It looks like it'll work great and let me put on fatter tires than I could with 700c or 650b so I'm a little surprised I can't find any such conversions on the google. If the big Tektro brake isn't total crap I'll be ordering the rear and having a custom 130mm rear wheel built.
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 3:21:37 AM UTC-5, Peter Adler wrote: > > I'm attempting a similar 27"-to-650b conversion at the moment, with > Silvers on a 1972 Raleigh Super Course. Early indications are that 700c is > fine, but there may not be enough reach to make it out to 650b. As for the > nutted brakes: I picked up my recessed Silvers at a Riv garage sale a > couple of years ago (missing the attachment fittings for the QRs, which I > cannibalized off salvaged brakes from bike kitchens). At the last Riv > garage sale in July, I found several pairs of huge Tektro sidepulls that > Grant IDed as parts for some abandoned project; Tektro lists them for beach > cruisers. Fortunately, they had nutted bolts, and Riv was selling them for > $5/pair. The bolts were not easy to get out of the brakes, but they fit the > Silvers just fine. > > Peter in Berkeley > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
