You've gotta put a reinforcing rib on the back of the caliper-side fork blade; it's fussy, but it doesn't spoil the look of a riv fork NEARLY as much as jackknifing one of the fork blades.
-david parsons On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 12:18:23 PM UTC-7, Peter White wrote: > > Oh, no! Put a disc brake onto any Rivendell fork I've ever seen and after > the first hard braking you'll have a severely bent left fork blade. Fork > blades must be quite a bit stiffer to work with disc brakes. > > PJW > > > In my experience, the fiddly bit of hydraulic brakes is the tubing; >> otherwise they're about as well behaved as a good pair of rim brakes. And >> you don't pay the Spyre or Hy/rd premium for them (if you care at all about >> how single-piston brakes need to shove the disk into the other caliper.) >> >> (And there ain't anything about a Riv that keeps anyone from brazing disc >> tabs onto it, except the initial frame cost.) >> >> -david parsons >> >> >>> > -- > Peter White > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
