RE: [CR]Brake hanger dilemna

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [CR]Brake hanger dilemna
To: LTravers <lat7575@swbell.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <9327C3B25BD3C34A8DBC26145D88A907064299@hippy.home.here>


I hadn't noticed that. But you could make a ring, cut from an old steerer tube and use it as a shim.
     Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia, USA


--- Mark Bulgier wrote:


>

\r?\n> Fred Rednor suggested:

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > Lynn,

\r?\n> > From one of my club's sponsors:

\r?\n> > http://www.bikemannetwork.com/biking/p/CXSP/BR3358

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > ...and for all the jesting that's done at Nashbar's

\r?\n> expense,

\r?\n> > look at this:

\r?\n> > http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?sku=11616

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Neither of those will work because they clamp to a 1"

\r?\n> diameter tube -

\r?\n> the steerer - not the stem.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> How about shortening the heat tube? Makes the steerer

\r?\n> effectively

\r?\n> longer. Almost any head tube can be shortened by the 1.5 to

\r?\n> 2 mm you

\r?\n> need to use an old (thin) steel Mafac hanger.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Good "pro" bike shops used to have the special cutter needed

\r?\n> to shorten

\r?\n> the head tube while keeping it parallel. Not sure if such

\r?\n> expertise &

\r?\n> tooling is rare or common in bike shops these days, but most

\r?\n> any custom

\r?\n> framebuilder can do it for sure.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Mark Bulgier

\r?\n> Seattle WA USA