I'm pretty sure the guys at Ibis, talented as they were (the handlebars were fabricated down the street) did not make the front sidepull on my 1993 Scorcher, which came stock with 41mm Specialized Nimbus tires (and actual or not, they were pretty damn fat). I'm not sure the exact model, but if memory serves it was a Dia Compe, with the lettering in script. Sure, maybe Shimano and Campy did not have grouppo brakesets for anything other than 25mm tires, but I still think the longer sidepulls were available, if you knew where to look. Obviously Scott Nichols and Wes Williams did. (Or, outside chance, it could be that they came across a stash of 100 NOS brakes. More likely it was one of the more staid selections from a BMX catalog). And what about replacement sidepull brakes for all those old Schwinns? Not all of them were CP. And aside from sidepulls, are we certain nobody in the world was making CP brakes in the 1990s?Maybe George L. didn't want to resort to a "second tier" brake? Anyway, the brake cleared those big old tires but only by a hair, and stopped okay, too. But it did get ugly fast with ice build up.
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 9:04:19 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 11/25/2015 07:50 AM, 'Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote: > > > *Fully lugged wrote: Tire size is always a function of available brakes.* > > I don't think there were many years in which a sidepull of one brand or > another was not produced that could clear a 35mm tire. (Sorry about the > awkward construction, need coffee.) > > > Actually, I think this is way wrong. My 1991 George Longstaff was built > for cantilever brakes because in 1991 only cantilevers would clear a 28mm > tire. There wasn't a centerpull or long reach sidepull on the market that > would. > > Also, when the Rambouillet was introduced in 2002, much was made of the > fact that the then newly introduced Shimano long reach dual pivot sidepull > made this frame possible -- and that brake on that frame will only > accommodate a 28mm tire with fenders (and even then you have to play games > with the cable tension to get the pads far enough apart to clear a Roly > Poly 28mm tire). > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
