I have managed to snag a couple of decent condition Raids on eBay for a pretty good price - the last one was 17 Euros plus shipping. The trick I find is to set your location to France, and more seem to pop up. They aren't NOS, but you have a couple of options in terms of improving the hardware. The first is to get the hardware kit from Compass - spending $50 on the brakes and $125 on the hardware package gets you pretty much brand new operating brakes for less than some other options, especially if you need the yoke because you don't have brazed on centrepull studs. The other option is to get some hardware from a Racer - it is pretty much all the same. I found some NOS Racers locally for cheap, so have new hardware for my Raids. The Compass stuff is nicer, but I am at about $75 for some pretty much NOS Raids. The arms are pretty much bulletproof - so unless they are really dinged up or bent, they should be great with new hardware.
The Raids have enough reach for the conversion I am doing of a Trek 620 (1983) that originally had 27" wheels. Toby Toronto On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:17:41 UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > On 11/25/2015 12:04 AM, Lungimsam wrote: > > Where can one purchase Mafac center pulls? Are they long reach enough > for 650b? > > > > Mafac is long gone, although old ones can be had on ebay. The one you > want for a 650B bike is the RAID. Generally the Racer, the one you'll > find in the old parts bucket in most old bike shops, won't work. > Compass has brought back the Mafac RAID in a slightly improved form: > > https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/components/brakes/compass-centerpull-brakes/ > > but it's intended for use with braze-on pivots and doesn't have the > backing plate making it suitable for bolt-on use. However, its > introduction has somewhat alleviated the upward price pressure on used > and NOS RAIDs (there's one available on ebay right now for the same > price as a Compass). > -- 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.
