I was thinking maybe a front derailleur clamp for braze-on danglers might be available in a large enough size. Or perhaps hack and old DX band-,clamp type FD.
The proliferation of 35mm bars means there are now more options for clamps and mounts in that larger size too.
Edit also the clamp-on housing stops or clamp-on FD pulley for CX bikes may provide mount options?
really smart idears, I will look into this. thanks!
https://problemsolversbike.com/products/shifters-derailleurs/cross_clamp_-_17312
The stem is 34mm in my verniers.
Im thinking, paperclip in the clamp bolt and maybe a dinger in the pulley mount
This would also work DMR Hinged Clamp | Chain Reaction
It totally works! The derailleur clamp is um ugly but super solid. I fixed the line to be straight, it’s actually an improvement now because my rack caused the old canti hanger to be a bit off parallel. All in all the cheapest way to explore lower stack without drilling. Thanks @jimmythefly
What to do for the brakes on my lock-up DGAF 2x1 beater-bike. Planning to replace SID with steel fork.
98 SID or Kona P2 fork
Disc/Vee
Hydro or cable
OEM hydro, Avid or XTR cable
If I go disc my wheels lose their matchyness.
Currently favouring Avid or XTR with vees.
Keeping that wheelset together is very much worth it to have vees (unless you want/need discs due to rain/crud etc.)
Yeah. I says it’s a crappy weather bike, but I’d rather keep the vees. Will keep it a bit lighter too.
v brakes rule
I actually really like the feel of vees.
Only bad thing about V brakes is they’re less pretty than cantis. Work great, easy to set up, cheap.
I feel like there wasnt enough time for them to become fully entrenched, before they were replaced by discs.
direct mount road calipers hold that award in the highest esteem atmo. the pair of dm dura ace rim brakes i touched (on a dry day, after touching them at the bike shop before returning to customer) were some of the best brakes i have ever felt
not even a full model year, but whatevs, disc is just categorically better on several fronts
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Gawdang this feels amazing. No more squish. Probably rides a bit higher too. Very weird, canti bosses were about 1 cm higher than on the SID.
What kind of hardware did you use to increase the A2C on that fork?
Nothing. That’s how it came.
What no ew those pokes
Pokes are fine, the right hand front brake is throwing me off though
I have never really ridden it much with those pokes, it’s been on loan for a very long time. It’s just a beater bike now. But anecdotally, I used to know a guy who timetrialed on the 700 version of them and he was very fast. I suspect they are quite aero. I can’t find that fork in Google. But that’s how it came . @dotMR
