I feel your pain with this one. On my Roadeo the front brake pads are at the bottom of the slots and the fork has 45mm between blades. With the Shimano brakes I could still get a 37 in there with a little balck magic to get it in and out.
The rear is another story. The bridge is so low that the pads end up mid slot, and there is barely 8mm between the JackBrown and the brake / bridge. In every other way I love this bike. If I was swimming an frames and had not liked absolutely every other thing about this bike I would have been bitching about it more than this by now. But that rear bridge will forever limit my abilty to run fenders with a JB or throw in a 37mm something from schwalbe for rides like next weekend. Still I love the bike, it is the nicest one I have ever owned, and I will ride the hell out of it. In your case it is very odd to have the front comes up short in the clearance department. Does the bike track straight? If the fork had been re-raked, intentionally or not, it could be geometrically possible for it to come up a little short like that. Rob - http://oceanaircycles.com/ On Nov 6, 10:03 pm, Michael_S <mikeybi...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > I picked up a used nice green Rambouillet a couple of months ago. When > I got it I put on some fairly new Jack Browns. I've been riding for a > few months and have been very happy with it overall although the > wheels that came with it were past their prime. I had a nice set of > wheels with Suntour XC Pro hubs so they went on and I rode it some > more. My only complaint was that the Shimano calipers that came on it > wouldn't open wide enough to get the JB's in w/out deflating. I picked > up some Tektro R538's and then Friday swapped out brakes,new Tektro > levers ( those shimaNo's are too small for my hands) and some nice > Suntour dérailleurs and bar end shifters. Everything worked perfect. > > This evening I went to put on some 35mm Paselas for some mixed terrain > rides and they won't fit height wise in the front because of the brake > calipers. Everything I've read says the Ram can fit 37mm tire. Has > anyone been able to fit a 35mm or even 37mm tire on their > Rambouillet? Is there to shift the brake caliper higher? > > ~Mike~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
