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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: WINI on April 21, 2012, 04:56 PM
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Is anyone running a decent New School caliper type front brake? My forks don't have U brake mounts and I really miss a front brake but all I can find other than OS stuff is some crappy tektro effort. Does anyone do a good one?
Cheers :daumenhoch:
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I'm running a bulldog on the frony of my General Lee, that stops like an over the bars effort and doesnt look like cheap tat, unlike the tektro shit
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Boa's are good if you can find one with a thin spindle
Or just buy some lugged forks and a u brake :daumenhoch:
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Think I might have a black bulldog knocking about actually J, might do the job! :daumenhoch:
If it fits around my fookin massive tyre that is!
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Boa's are good if you can find one with a thin spindle
Or just buy some lugged forks and a u brake :daumenhoch:
Ha ha, can I have that one I sold you back Mark? ;D
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mine fits around a 2.25 :daumenhoch:
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Sweet, may have found a use for it yet!
Come to think, I've got an ACS 860 somewhere too if that fits
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Boa's are good if you can find one with a thin spindle
Or just buy some lugged forks and a u brake :daumenhoch:
Ha ha, can I have that one I sold you back Mark? ;D
Just thought about that after i posted ;D
I've got the rear, Kev bought the front one
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You always need what you sold a few weeks back eh!
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You always need what you sold a few weeks back eh!
Think we can all relate to that ;D
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the boa is probably the best caliper brake you can get, i used the same one for about the last 15 years up until about 6 months ago when i finally bought some lugged forks. i've got a rob ridge one that he put a 10mm axle in with sealed bearings.
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the boa i bought was for olly :LolLolLolLol:
dont bother with a caliper brake, get a brake plate and a ad990 or odyssey evo 2 :daumenhoch:
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Those Reaction Megabrake Boa's worked really well, if You didn't mind the huge bolt sticking out the back of the steerer tube!
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Yup. Had one of the 10mm ones for ages before brake plates came to be.
I'm surprised there aren't more kicking about, you never seem to hear of anyone with one these days. Rob must have done a good number of them eh?
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Best off with a 990 type brake but if you want a Boa-pains me to mention these idiots...dunno what the spindle size is.
http://www.winstanleysbmx.com/product/43968/ACS_BOA_Front_Brake
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Don't bother with the 6mm Boa for riding though, the spindle will snap & all those tiny bearings fly off everywhere!
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:daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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Yup. Had one of the 10mm ones for ages before brake plates came to be.
I'm surprised there aren't more kicking about, you never seem to hear of anyone with one these days. Rob must have done a good number of them eh?
I don't know where They all went either Rob, I put up a wanted add a while back & don't think I got One reply. Used to see a lot way back when!