Today's BLUG mention of potential conflict with V-brakes blocking the hole in the fork crown & causing a fit problem with racks reminded me of kinda-sorta almost having that issue when I changed my Atlantis over to Vs. I use a small Nitto front rack that mounts to that fork crown hole. On the original Vs that I used the noodle boot contacted the rack strut. Not enough to cause problems but it had zero clearance. It worked but when I came across a brake with slightly longer arms (107 mm vs 102 mm, IIRC), I installed the longer arm. No change in braking power or other functionality but now plenty of clearance above the rack strut.
These generic Shimano brakes retail for less than $30 so a cheap & easy fix if you run into the same conflict. Tektro has similar brakes. As it turns out there's a lot of brake arm lengths out there to choose from. My wife's Atlantis has TRP mini-Vs that work with standard pull road levers (the Tiagras that came on the bike) and the cable is lower than the fork crown hole. dougP -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
