Re: [RBW] Re: Why not a suspension-corrected fork/frame?
My friend already had a very hard time (a couple years ago) getting a replacement fork for his Niner Sir9(?) that was only a couple years old. The steerer standard had changed. I passed on buying a Kona Unit X because the (rigid) disc fork was 100mm, not 110, and I could see that if I had to replace it in five years, I'd need to buy a new wheel, too. Surly designs weird work-arounds for backwards compatibility, but you can't future-proof anything in the bike industry. Philip Santa Rosa, CA On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 4:16:31 PM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote: > > My first disc brake bike, which was state of the art when I got it, uses a > 22mm Hayes caliper mounting standard. Try and find something that fits. > My modern, once-modern replacement suspension fork has ISS caliper > mounting tabs. All new forks use post mounts, so when it wears out, I'll > be forced to get new brakes too? That's a rhetorical question, of course, > because the new fork would have a tapered steerer that wouldn't fit my 1 > 1/8" headtube. And, even if it did, it would likely be intended for a > thru-axle 110 boost hub standard, so I'd need to rebuild my wheel anyway. > Which is probably a good thing, because then i could ditch the old-school > 6 bolt rotor mounting standard for the new and improved centerlock > standard. This year, that is. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Why not a suspension-corrected fork/frame?
My first disc brake bike, which was state of the art when I got it, uses a 22mm Hayes caliper mounting standard. Try and find something that fits. My modern, once-modern replacement suspension fork has ISS caliper mounting tabs. All new forks use post mounts, so when it wears out, I'll be forced to get new brakes too? That's a rhetorical question, of course, because the new fork would have a tapered steerer that wouldn't fit my 1 1/8" headtube. And, even if it did, it would likely be intended for a thru-axle 110 boost hub standard, so I'd need to rebuild my wheel anyway. Which is probably a good thing, because then i could ditch the old-school 6 bolt rotor mounting standard for the new and improved centerlock standard. This year, that is. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Why not a suspension-corrected fork/frame?
Disc brakes and well designed suspension forks are no more prone to obsolescence than rim brakes or rigid forks, for which, also, there are fashions (high-rake? Paul, Compass, centerpulls? -- not in the original Rivendell catalogues). And please explain why disc brakes will last less long than calipers or cantis or those horrible modern V brakes? Patrick Moore, whose BB7s on his bilaminate custom dirt road bike will be things of beauty forever. The period Rockshock fork on the 1996 Race Lite I owned worked as well in 2016 as it did in 1996; though I personally have no need for suspension forks of any era. And BB7s have been around longer than Compass brakes and, I daresay, some of the Dia Compe calipers. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 8:13 AM, iamkeith wrote: > Setting aesthetics, appropriateness of riding style and necessary > design/handling compromises aside, I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the > most obvious strike against suspension (not to mention disc brakes): > longevity and built-in obsolescence. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
