Oh, yes! If your 'luki has the mid-fork braze-ons and you have a Nitto Mini rack already, absolutely go that route.
On Monday, March 18, 2013 3:24:50 PM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > Thanks for all the help; it both clarified the issues and lifted me out of > a stuck place. > > I had thought about the spacer solution, but living out in the boonies I > thought tracking down an M5x35 allen head bolt and a 20 mm spacer seemed > unlikely. As luck would have it, I had to go into "town" ( 45 miles round > trip) today and much to my surprise Sticks and Stuff actually had the > parts I needed! > > Jetising the Paul's was never really an option, one because they are the > easiest cantis to set up and live with ever and two because I owe them my > life, literally. (Stopped alive in front of the dreaded right hook.) > Anyway almost all my bikes have Paul's brakes - the Ram has Racer Ms and > the tandem studed Racers. Only my old racing bike has Chorus, and my > wife's has Superbe. > > Anyway things are back together, but I am still wondering if I wouldn't be > better off swapping the rack with the Nitto Mini ( I misspoke when I wrote > M12) which is now on the Ebisu I am preparing for sale. One bolts to the > fork and one to the brake. > > Michael > > On Monday, March 18, 2013 2:06:56 PM UTC-4, William wrote: >> >> It would be cool if you could get the canti-post struts separately so you >> could run a Mark's Rack with the canti-post mounting, but still had >> adjustable struts so you could accommodate high-stack brakes, like the >> Pauls. Unfortunately, it looks like you can only buy those struts in 70mm >> an 120mm lengths, which is not going to be long enough. That would have >> been a slick setup. >> >> http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7978 >> >> >> >> On Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:25:33 PM UTC-7, William wrote: >>> >>> I would advise ditching the Paul brakes. The Tektros are fine and will >>> play nice with the rack. If you have mid fork braze ons so that a Nitto >>> Mini Front would fit, then that could present an option, but an M12 won't >>> be any better on Paul brakes than that VO is. Paul has way too much stack >>> up. >> >> -- 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.
