Perfectly good brakes in a box in the garage

Wow! Just to prove that there's nothing wrong with keeping a pair of
perfectly good brakes in storage, check this out: I was fitting a few
parts onto the Klein Performance frame that has also been sitting in a
box. Two wheels, stem and handlebars... looking more like a bike
already. Fitted the newish Shimano "long-reach" brakes... could be
made to work. Kind of long, though... I wonder if those Royal Gran
Compe 400's... YES! They reach the rim!

But the frame and fork are for through-bolt, and the brakes are the
recessed nut type. Should I machine out the nut side to make them
recessed? Or try to rig a longer bolt?

On Jan 24, 6:42*pm, Dan O wrote:
Wow! *Just to prove that there's nothing wrong with keeping a pair of
perfectly good brakes in storage, check this out: *I was fitting a few
parts onto the Klein Performance frame that has also been sitting in a
box. *Two wheels, stem and handlebars... looking more like a bike
already. *Fitted the newish Shimano "long-reach" brakes... could be
made to work. *Kind of long, though... I wonder if those Royal Gran
Compe 400's... YES! *They reach the rim!

But the frame and fork are for through-bolt, and the brakes are the
recessed nut type. *Should I machine out the nut side to make them
recessed? *Or try to rig a longer bolt?

Ancient question, many answers, a typical answer
is to use a couple of regular nuts, put the front brake
on the rear, put the rear brake on the front and stick
the nut up into the fork crown to fasten (that is, bolt
only goes through front of fork crown). I've done
this, it works. You can drill out the rear of the fork
crown to take a recessed nut, but harder to do the
rear of the seatstay bridge properly.

Ben

On Jan 24, 8:27 pm, "
wrote:
On Jan 24, 6:42 pm, Dan O wrote:

Wow! Just to prove that there's nothing wrong with keeping a pair of
perfectly good brakes in storage, check this out: I was fitting a few
parts onto the Klein Performance frame that has also been sitting in a
box. Two wheels, stem and handlebars... looking more like a bike
already. Fitted the newish Shimano "long-reach" brakes... could be
made to work. Kind of long, though... I wonder if those Royal Gran
Compe 400's... YES! They reach the rim!

But the frame and fork are for through-bolt, and the brakes are the
recessed nut type. Should I machine out the nut side to make them
recessed? Or try to rig a longer bolt?

Ancient question, many answers, a typical answer
is to use a couple of regular nuts, put the front brake
on the rear, put the rear brake on the front and stick
the nut up into the fork crown to fasten (that is, bolt
only goes through front of fork crown). I've done
this, it works. You can drill out the rear of the fork
crown to take a recessed nut, but harder to do the
rear of the seatstay bridge properly.


Yes, that's just how it looks. Thanks!