Tom, Wow, that is quite encouraging. Also thinking of 60mm Berthound's with the wider tires, so your experience and the others leads us to think that we won't be too limited with the V brake constraint. I was too thinking of checking in with the folks in Chico about the Motolites.
The arm length differences got me thinking, I trust there's a standard distance (range) for the studs to be placed from axel center depending on rim size, wonder if we can make sure they place the studs to ensure we can maximize the brake's tire clearance for 700c rims. Thanks, Owen On Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:25:42 AM UTC+7, Tom Harrop wrote: > > Hi Owen, > > I use Shimano V-brakes (107 mm arms), 700C Big Apples (57 mm actual width > on my rims) and Berthoud 60 mm steel fenders. It works great, although it > was necessary to put a dent in (or should I say cold set) the fenders to > get the housing stop/quick-release thingy on the V-brakes to clear. With 50 > mm 700C Marathon Supremes (around 46 mm on my rims, from memory) I had nice > clearance on the fenders and no denting was necessary. > > I think Tektro V-brakes are available with longer arms, and I've heard > that the arms on Paul Motolites are 114 mm but that measurement isn't given > on their website (anyone got a set they can measure?). You would need to > have the frame clearance and racks could get in the way. I intend to find > out about the Motolites and consider switching at some point. > > Tom > -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
