New Stuff Part Deux.
On the heels of yesterday’s disc brakes for road comes today’s disc brakes for cross. If ever there was a screaming need for discs it’s on a cross bike. I promise that today’s entry will have many fewer words and lots more photos.
This is my 3rd and final show bike for NAHBS and it’s my personal cross bike for the 2012 race season. It’s made with a mix of OS and XL tubes and all the main tubes are Reynolds 853 Pro. They are all filleted to my special Kirk by Reynolds chain and Terraplane seat stays. It will be shown as is, in the raw and ready for paint, and as soon as I get it back from the show it will go off to JB so he can work his magic.
I’m excited by the wheels I have coming for this bike – Enve carbon with DT hubs, 6 bolt disc mounts and 135 rear spacing. Should be tough and light and kick butt on the rough stuff and in the mud – especially without having rubber blocks grinding the sidewalls of the rims away during muddy events.
I’ll shut up now and let you look at the photos – 201 words today – not bad!
Dave
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These disc mounts are very nicely executed. Now you just need some laser-cut for production.
That rig is 100% titties & beer, Dave!
Whose tiitties are we talking bout?
Dave
No disrespect meant towards Mr. Bell, but I don’t think paint will improve the looks of that bicycle.
Lots of them at once – the beer too! One pair could not express the awesomeness encapsulated by the sum of the tubes!
Gosh that’s lovely work.
Continuing on the discussion of disk brakes:
1). Did I understand that Shimano or SRAM were going to come out with hydraulic disk brakes for road bikes in the near future? Rumor or something beyond rumor?
2). The braze-ons and attachments in the bike shown, which are for a mechanical disk brake, would these work with a hydraulic brake if it came out, or would you need to take it back to the shop and do new braze-ons (and make JB mad)?
Hey Eric,
Sram has confirmed a hydro Red road disc and Shimano has put out the rumor of a cable pulled Dura-Ace disc. The attachments for the calipers would be universal as they are standardized and not at all dependent on whether the brakes are cable or hydro. The braze-ons that hold the cables/hydro lines of course are specific. So changing from the cable set up on the fillet bike to a hydro line would require changing the braze-ons and, if it was painted, it would need a repaint. I may get the bike back from the show and cover it with rust proofing goo and wait to see when the Sram hydro stuff comes out…………don’t want to make JB mad!
Dave
Lots of them sounds good. It might be the one thing one can’t have too much of………..I’m talking the beer of course! The other would be crude and sexist and I’m neither!
Thanks for the comments Steve – they mean more than you know.
Dave
This is a great-lookin bike and the finishing great. Since these are done in aluminum alloy, could I have mine done in burnished finished, no paint just a clear topcoat? Particulary interested with a custom commuter.
I’m sorry but no the frames are not available without paint. They are made of steel and require a proper paint job to give a lifetime of use.
dave
Looks fantastic! Will you use stiffer fork blades that alter the ride?
At this point I’m testing two bikes that use my standard light blade and the performance is good. I’ll be doing more testing with them as the weather improves and I can get into the mountains. I may have some special blades made specifically to use with discs – but this will depend on the results of the testing. Lots to do…………..
Dave