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Title: lost my bloody brake
Post by: harris on September 26, 2008, 05:46 PM
i have saved a few parts for a 90s build and my shimano 990 has vanished
its a real nice brake and gutted its gone.

have you lot lost stuff you know you have.kinda misplaced
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: mi16kie on September 26, 2008, 05:56 PM
Was it a shimano u brake from a mountain bike? If so do you need another?
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: harris on September 26, 2008, 05:58 PM
yes it was a mtb one early type .
gonna have a dig tommorrow then might pm   :daumenhoch:   
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: SaMAlex on September 26, 2008, 10:34 PM
I think Wilson is after a shimano U brake. I had one but it wasnt clean enough for him
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: generallee on September 27, 2008, 09:00 PM
Lazarou has a mint clean silver shimano u brake that he offered me but Im passing up on ... so pm him!
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: harris on September 27, 2008, 09:01 PM
 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: darkersomeday on September 27, 2008, 09:14 PM
great brake the old shimano,

g-sport george bought up all the old uk stock when shitmano stopped making them,

i had a deore xt with the steel brace,

nice brakes :daumenhoch:


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g171/jarvicseven/IMG_6432.jpg)


i lost some marbles awhile ago dan,

still havent found them :-\
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: harris on September 27, 2008, 09:16 PM
join the club bud   ;D
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: welsh denny on September 29, 2008, 11:45 AM
i ran one of them on the front just before the brake plate revolution took off. a mate involved in mtb used a stiffener plate and cabled tied and bolted to the forks.  so i got one off him. wish i still had it as worked amazing. it was on a big daddy i had stolen around 98.  :knuppel2:
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: Wayne Ryder on September 29, 2008, 01:11 PM
Hinged seat clamp. I know I've got one, it came off of Andy B.'s old Haro Sport, he used to run one on the seatpost under the plate.
Probably lurking somewhere amongst the spiderwebs in a corner of the shed, or in an old jar of bits & bobs.

And those brakes are amazing, but I can't use mine as the posts on my frames are all on the chainstays. How did you manage to make one work on the front?
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: welsh denny on September 29, 2008, 09:52 PM
like so.
this was my chrome se made big daddy back in 1993/94.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q14/dennydyer/LeckwithLlantwitMajorWatertower9503.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q14/dennydyer/LeckwithLlantwitMajorWatertower9-1.jpg)

brake lasted for years, S&M heavy as f**k, chrome big daddy, khe catweazle, red big daddy (thicker dropouts) which  got nicked.
Title: Re: lost my bloody brake
Post by: Wayne Ryder on September 29, 2008, 10:24 PM
Sorry to get sidetracked with the Shimanos, but I tried doing that and found the angles just didn't give enough pull and the cable was rubbing on the groove on top of one arm. Would've worked better if one side or the other was elevated, but I never found a satisfactory way to do it.
Might try again, black rims not being too great a surface if you want brakes that bite properly.
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