duckaxe said:Thanks a lot for the input, guys. It looks like I'll probably have to
go with trying to find someone to braze the mounts on and attach a
Magura brake set. I really love my 26", so swapping the frame isn't an
option.
Thanks again.
You *can* put v-brakes on a 26x3, as long as the mounts are set quite
high up. However, it still requires brazing, and v-brakes don't cost
much different to maguras. For an out and out muni maguras probably
make sense, I like v-brakes for touring as spares are easy to get &
light to carry, but munis it's less important, and maguras are nice and
easy to set up.
Setting up the magura braze on mounts for welding is easy. First you
work out where they will go, and file off the chrome under where the
tabs will go. Then you need to clamp them on using hose clamps (I used
hose clamps with blocks of wood on the outside on the frame), make sure
they're in the right place (there are specifications for where to put
them on the magura website). Make really really sure they're in the
right place and the hose clamps are tight enough so the mounts can't
move around. Also make sure the clamps are nowhere near the tabs on the
magura mounts. Then take them to any place that can weld (any local
metal shop / engineering company - we have four or five in our yellow
pages in a small town, there probably is one near you), and ask them to
weld them on. At mine, it cost me £4 to get it done. The welding on
itself only takes about 5 minutes (plus 5 minutes to let it cool), the
reason bike shops charge a fair amount is because the setup takes time,
if you do the setup there's not much work left.
Mine, I got it welded, just because the first person I went to did
welding and not brazing, I don't think it makes masses of difference as
long as the person welding has some skill, the only hassle is that if
you get the setup wrong, welding is permanent and can't be undone,
whereas I think brazing can be. But you're only risking a £20 nimbus II
frame anyway.
If you don't want any hassle and have lots of money, unicycle.com would
almost certainly be able to get you a nimbus II frame with magura braze
ons, I know the UK one has got a few done, I didn't do it that way
because it was cheaper and quicker to do my existing frame.
Joe
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