KH 24 disk brake mod.

Looks awesome. I think you should keep it that plain silvery grey
colour, it looks good. When you take it for a ride, let us know how she
handles and such.

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Very impressive, let us know how it holds up🙂

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That looks great!

I'm the guy that put a disc brake on a Coker and I know what you mean
about the clearance between the caliper body and spokes. I started out
with an Avid mechanical disc that just barely cleared the spokes, then
eventually switched it with an IRC Dual Banger mechanical. It has
better clearance with a 160mm rotor.

I'm curious about your hub. Did you drill and tap a stock KH hub then
use a spacer to mount the rotor?

As for color: silver looks pretty good ... but really ... everything
looks better red.

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Thanks all for the praise. I wasn't sure what kinda response to expect,
being that "you don't need an 8" rotor on a muni".

Showard, If you look carefully at the third picture in my gallery, all
the way to the right and just over half way down you can just see the
adapter that I made. Yes I did drill and tap the stock KH hub. I simply
made a bolt circle in between that of the rotor bolt circle. As you
figured out, I screwed the adapter to the hub and then screwed the rotor
to the adapter. I saw your Koker, nice job indeed. I was wandering how
you got those clearances. I could not even get the Avid mechanical to
clear the spokes with the 8" rotor!!! I initially used an early Magura
Louise single piston hydraulic caliper. It allowed a 160 rotor with
scads of clearance. Unfortunately, when I finished the whole setup the
brake had ingested air or developed a leak. Since I had heard that
Louise's had such a reputation I decided to abandon it and move onto
something new. Too bad really, because it was so compact and light and
likely not as powerful as the new systems, which would have fit the bill
just perfect.

I can't wait to give it a good run. I have only tried it on the ramp in
my underground parking lot. The pads are not even bedded in yet. The
truth is, I do not really need a brake all that much for the terrain
that I ride ( Eastern Ontario, Canada). Funny thing is when I was in
Tahoe for the Cali Muni weekend, my Magura HS33 broke a line. On the
first day no less. That is when I really needed a brake. Needless to say
I had no (working) brake for the rest of the weekend. But I know I am
just a whinner, since there were lots of riders that did not even have
brakes at all (weird people). I did this more for the sake of doing it.
I like doing things like this. Unfortunately, the time and machine
availability are not always there.

I will definately post a performance review as soon as I can. I hope to
have the frame painted ( maybe silver ) soon. There is lots of snow here
now so finding steep hills is not all that easy. I did ride down a
tabogan hill last year though.

Wayne.

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That's one of the most beautiful munis I've ever seen, I love the colour
as it is too. Please let us know how it rides. Good thinking putting
the disk on the side you hop from rather than to.

Andrew

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Thanks Andrew,

I hope that I did not make a mistake. I liked the silver colour too.
But today when I took the frame in to be powder coated I saw all the
beautiful colours on the sample board and went with my original choice
or yellow. I know it will look good either way.
It was such a hard decision. One should not have to make such decisions
in life.
The guys at the shop did not make it any easier as they kept teasing me
with more colours every time I thought I had made up my mind. I must
have walked around the shop ten times looking at different colours that
they were running before I just through my hands up in the air and said
paint it yellow.

I have not ridden all December. This Thursday is our first club meeting
since November. I made the guys at the powder coating shop promiss that
the frame will be ready by Wednesday at the very latest. Unfortunately,
the gym that we ride in has no steep slopes to that I can test out the
brakes with. Oh well.

Wayne.

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