and the stock brakepads of the R559 brakes hit the insides of the fork blades? That's wild. Share a picture if you get the chance. For all the Tektro sidepulls I've set up (559s on 4 different bikes, 538s on 2 bikes), the brakepads didn't reach that far back to get in between the fork blades. Did you decide not to use the two spacers that the brakes came with? Did you swap the brakepads for extra long v-brake pads? Are they straight blade forks? Set up 'normally', the entire brake and both brake pads should be entirely in front of the fork blades. No matter how skinny the clearance at the fork blades is, the brake pads shouldn't be in there.
Sorry for taking this thread on a tangent, but now my interest is piqued. Ha ha. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:30:57 PM UTC-8, Tim Gavin wrote: > > I guess I spend a lot of time on bikes with Silver/Tektro R559 brakes on > skinny forks (short reach-to-650B conversions), where I do have that > problem. Again proving that a bike designed with the proper clearance is > best. > > :) > > Tim > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
