Fed up with canti's, the judder, the fast wearing through rims, the crap braking in mud etc.
I have a planet X uncle jack and have the forks that match the bike. What options Do I have for forks that will fiT the geometry of this bike but have disc mounts on them?
Also what are my options with wheels? I presume mtb hubs built onto road rims will be the wrong diameter and not fit in the drop outs?
All help and advice greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
Various forks including kinesis alloy (£60 or so?) and carbon (£130).
Brakes - avids, hub - any qr disc front hub (lx £10 @ on one just now)
MTB hubs and road rims will work fine.
On-one are doing Pompetamine forks with disc tabs for £40...
what about the rear hub? spacings? will a mtb fit?
nice one tron- will have a look
mtb rear hub is 5mm wider, you should be able to get one re-spaced.
I assume you're talking about an Uncle John frame? I don't think they have disc mounts at the back. According to Sheldon Brown, Mountain bike hubs are 135mm, road hubs are 130. You'd probably squeeze one in, but it's not a brilliant idea - I think they're Alloy frames?
Tron - it has mounts for discs at the rear, that is why i am looking for a fork at the fornt with the disc mount on it.
So if the buh is 5mm shorter, i don't really fancy squeezying the QR to make them fit. Are there any 130mm hubs out there with disc mounts on them?
If it has disc mounts, then I'd suspect that it's MTB spaced - measure it!
Another option would be to see if some bits (ie, spacers, lock nuts) can be removed from a rear MTB hub to alter the spacing without trying to cold set the frame.
Oops I just realised you won't be able to change teh spacing on teh hub as it would move the disc relative to the frame (well you could but it's a bit of a bodge).
You could change the spacing on the hub, but you'd have to do it all on the driveside, not the brakeside.
A lot of frames are spaced at 132.5, allowing you to run either road or mountain hubs. I reckon that means 2.5mm of stretch is reasonably sane, so if you can knock 2.5mm off the hub, you should get away with a Mountain hub in a 130 frame.
It's all a bit academic without knowing what the frame spacing is...