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Rob G
Guest
Hello there - I'm an elderly neewbie to this group and would appreciate
some guidance on rear disk brakes.
Saturday saw my first adventure using a bike to get into some of the
more remote hills in Scotland. I've seen Peter Clinch's name on some
of the posts in the archives and he will recognise the long access into
Beinn Dearg behind Blair Atholl. 6 miles of mountain track to the
bottom of the hill, made all the more difficult by 2 inches of snow
from about 1000 ft up to the track summit at 1700 ft. The hill itself
had 12 inches which made walking quite difficult but the weather was
fantastic.
Anyway the return was where things got difficult as it was by then
freezing noticeably - the rear changer gave up and I had to walk a
kilometre of uphill, and then the rear V brake was just useless,
fortunately I've a disk on the front.
The question is - what adaptors exist to fit a disk to the rear? The
wheel hub is suitably machined and drilled but the frame has no
mounting points - it's a GT Tempest.
Thanks for any assistance
Rob
some guidance on rear disk brakes.
Saturday saw my first adventure using a bike to get into some of the
more remote hills in Scotland. I've seen Peter Clinch's name on some
of the posts in the archives and he will recognise the long access into
Beinn Dearg behind Blair Atholl. 6 miles of mountain track to the
bottom of the hill, made all the more difficult by 2 inches of snow
from about 1000 ft up to the track summit at 1700 ft. The hill itself
had 12 inches which made walking quite difficult but the weather was
fantastic.
Anyway the return was where things got difficult as it was by then
freezing noticeably - the rear changer gave up and I had to walk a
kilometre of uphill, and then the rear V brake was just useless,
fortunately I've a disk on the front.
The question is - what adaptors exist to fit a disk to the rear? The
wheel hub is suitably machined and drilled but the frame has no
mounting points - it's a GT Tempest.
Thanks for any assistance
Rob