That’s great insight. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 7, 2021, at 6:33 PM, Peter Adler <divisi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 3:30:23 PM UTC-7 RichS wrote: > Sam, > To answer your question, Yes. I used Motolites on a 26" wheel Atlantis for a > 650b conversion. Worked fine. > > Converting wheel sizes by moving the pads up/down works, but there are > limits. The pad placement difference between a 559 26" wheel and a 584 650B > wheel is only 12.5mm, which falls within the pad adjustment range of most > brakes. But I once tried converting a 26"/559 VooDoo Hoodoo to 700c/622 > wheels using only Paul MotoDVs. Boosting the pads 31.5mm above the normal > position sacrificed so much mechanical advantage that the braking was pretty > much worthless. I ended up addressing the problem with a 700c CX fork in > front, and a Mavic Caliper Adjuster in back (a brake booster that bolts onto > the normal 26" canti bosses, and has a supplementary set of canti bosses > brazed on in the 700c position), which restored the brakes' awesomeness. > > <Mavic_Caliper_Adjuster.jpg> > <VooDoo_rear-ish.jpg> > > > On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 8:25:30 PM UTC-7 Joe Bernard wrote: >> About setup that someone mentioned: Yes it's different and can be finicky if >> you're used to how most v-brakes work. The "problem" isn't the Pauls, it's >> that Paul did this design first and it's only familiar and easy if you knew >> it first. The standard style we all know now came later. > > Well, yes and no. I think there's an argument to be made that the inspiration > for the Paul Motolites (the version Mike M's using are the to-my-mind even > cooler MotoDVs) are the late 80s-early 90s Cheap Tricks, done by the one-man > operation Marinovative, that one man being the teenage genius Ben Capron > (later of Specialized). > > http://mombatbicycles.com/MOMBAT/BikeHistoryPages/Marinovative.html > > Peter Adler > who speaks truth to Paul's power by riding with a pair of Marinovative bidons > on his Paul-equipped VooDoo in > Berkeley, CA/USA > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5c17ae86-9748-459c-a968-df0cbacf553fn%40googlegroups.com. > <Mavic_Caliper_Adjuster.jpg> > <VooDoo_rear-ish.jpg> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/E336D973-89A5-47B3-B132-94994EA1947C%40gmail.com.
