johnboyturbo
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2013 Shimano Dura-Ace BR-9000 Racing Road Bike brake calliper 49mm drop Front
Fit on my viking bike plz
2013 Shimano Dura-Ace BR-9000 Racing Road Bike brake calliper 49mm drop Front
Fit on my viking bike plz
Don't see why they are not upgradeable. From the look of it you have old-school single pivot calipers. Dura Ace would be overkill but something like this (guessing, without knowing the exatc drop needed for your bike) should fit just fine
http://www.parker-international.co....rrer=froogle&gclid=CPycn9LszroCFbLJtAodCzwAwQ
Looks perfectly standard to me. Just that the calipers are old school single pivot. I could take the dura ace calipers off a fancy bike and fit sturmey archer steel sidepulls, so see no reason why the other way wouldn't work.
But even the budget end of Tektro dual-pivots would be a massive improvement on single-pivot, so my advice to the OP would be that Dura-Ace would be overkill
Yes but if the hole in the frame is the standard size, which can't be seen from the pic, then the whole fitting would be replaced with a 6mm spindle and sleeve set up.If you look at the pic, you can see they are not 'standard'. Standard calipers have a 6mm threaded mounting spindle designed to be fastened with an M6 sleeve nut which secures against a recess on the opposite side of the fork crown, (or brake bridge if on the rear). Such fittings are flush with the frame and you can see that these aren't. Because of the way these calipers are mounted - and because of the size of the mounting bolts - it will not be possible to fit standard calipers.
Yes but if the hole in the frame is the standard size, which can't be seen from the pic, then the whole fitting would be replaced with a 6mm spindle and sleeve set up.
I'm obviously missing something. The setup currently on the bike looks weird but it you take that long bolt thing off with everything attached to it, how would it be a bodge job to fit a new caliper flush to the frame in the usual way with the usual fitting?