Hi all,
I hope you can help me, as I’ve already bought a couple of parts that did not fit.
I have an oldskool sintesi bazooka with hope big uns, hope C2 calipers, etc. My bike was delivered with jr. T back in the days, but I broke it in an DH event in 2000′. Since then I’ve used the 2001 boxxer pro and for a while a marzocchi drop off from 004-22005(?). (before they went PM for the caliper).
The drop off was quite crappy, because of the air system. So I went back to the boxxer, but it had a different problem with the plastic bushing (broken, so it locks out on hard drops).
So I bought a slightly used 2008(?) 66 ATA professionally converted to oil (180mm strke). This shock looked fine and all, but I saw that it had the Post mount.
However I talked to a friend and he said that I could just buy the Post mount to IS from chanreaction cycles. I hesitated that it stated I would have to go +20mm.
The adaptor arrived and I fitted it and instantly saw that it did not work. So I measured my disc, it was 180mm. I then ordered the 205mm disc from chainreaction.. waited, waited and then it arrived. After paying the customs fee of 12 pounds and the import VAT (25%),the disc had then cost me about 40 pounds… And yet it does not fit.
I see that I would need at least 225mm disc, which does not seem to exist for the 5 bolt hope system. (big uns). This is quite strange, as the HBSM20H says it needs +20mm and my old disc with IS was 180mm…..
I am a bit “scared” about importing more parts now and I’m considering if it’s easier to just swap the entire front brake system.. (it would be about 100 pounds for a new front system from chainreaction cycles).
Or maybe I could find some C2 calipers/front system for a 160mm front disc(?).Hope you can advise me about what I could/should do..ps. if I import anything over 20 gbp, it costs me 12 gbp in toll fee and 25% VAT on both the purchase sum and the freight….