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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Disk Brake Conversion

Visited friend Tony's 1962 Series restoration today, and lent a hand with installing with the disk brake conversion that Tony is installing. The kit is from Rocky Mountain Products in Vancouver, BC.

Nice components and the kit looks well put together. Really nice that no parts have to be modified.

My only question, and a small one at that, was whether it might have been possible to mount the caliper further around to the rear, so that the hub's swivel pin assembly didn't have to be dismantled and removed in order to screw in the top caliper mounting bolt, but I'm sure there's a sound engineering reason why. In any case, once it's on, it's not likely that the caliper will have to come off very often.

Some general views of the hub assembly: