Dave Elcome
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- Peoples Republic of Kent
I have a Specialized Sirrus LTD full carbon bike, which I have recently converted this to drop bars. This has been a major success apart from one area, the brakes.
The bike is equipped with Avid single digit V brakes and the requisite travel agents to take up lever movement, but in this one area the bike just isn't a road bike. On my other road bikes the brakes area great, which has got me thinking of changing the Sirrus to calliper brakes the same as the others.
This is where the problems start. I can easily replace the forks for a set that will accommodate longer drop callipers, but the crunch comes with the rears. In order to mount the rear brake I would have to drill the little bridge bit between the seat stays as it isn't already drilled from manufacture.
Come on then folks, would you drill it? or just put up with the V brakes in fear of wrecking a frame?
The bike is equipped with Avid single digit V brakes and the requisite travel agents to take up lever movement, but in this one area the bike just isn't a road bike. On my other road bikes the brakes area great, which has got me thinking of changing the Sirrus to calliper brakes the same as the others.
This is where the problems start. I can easily replace the forks for a set that will accommodate longer drop callipers, but the crunch comes with the rears. In order to mount the rear brake I would have to drill the little bridge bit between the seat stays as it isn't already drilled from manufacture.
Come on then folks, would you drill it? or just put up with the V brakes in fear of wrecking a frame?