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700c to 26in V-brake conversion
I have search high and low and feel like I’m kinda close to the solution but..
does anyone know if there is some sort of adapter that facilitates my V-brakes to be lower, offering me the chance to put ...
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Aluminium rim brake wheelsets
I'm looking at upgrading the wheelset on my entry-level, rim brake road bike. I don't want to break my bank, so I'm looking into budget aluminium rim brake wheelsets.
What features should I prioritize?...
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Wide rims for rim brakes for gravel bike?
I have a decent gravel bike that I put together from parts. It has cantilever rim brakes and 40c tires. The wheelset is an old Mavic Open road one which has narrow rims. I'd like to switch to a wider ...
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Ultegra R8000 rim brake compatible with Zipp 303 Firecrest?
Update
I have successfully mounted a Zipp Firecrest 303 wheel set onto my Cannondale R800 CAAD 4 frame with Shimano BR-R8000 rim brakes. Thanks for the advice!
I would like to buy a carbon wheel set ...
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How fast do carbon and aluminium rim brake tracks wear?
Rim brakes wear the wheels' brake tracks. How long do wheels usually live until they're worn (In terms of distance, not time)?
Of course I realise this depends on how much I brake, not how much I ride....
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Vittoria Corsa Tyre impossible to mount on LightBicycle Rim
After much incredibly fruitless painstaking efforts to mount the tyre, I am ready to try anything.
My rims are LightBicycle Falcon Wheelset AR56 Road/CX RR56C03. (rim brakes)
External Rim Width: 28mm
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two grooves in wheel rim
Schwinn midtown bicycle, when replacing brakes I see the wheel has many grooves as shown in picture. I do not remember how it was before. Is this condition normal for the wheel rim?
Photo of the old ...
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Can I convert a rim brake wheel to a disc brake wheel?
I recently bought some Roval SLX 24's from eBay. I made a pretty silly error and didn't check whether they were rim or disc brakes. I need them to be disc brakes.
Should they be rim brakes, will ...
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How to tell if a new pair of brake calipers will fit my wheel, tire, and frame?
I have a Takara Kabuto. It has 700x32 tires (I don't really know what that means).
I was looking at upgrading the brake calipers. I was looking at these, among others.
How do I tell if they will ...
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Fixing damage to brake rim surface
somehow the alloy braking surface of my rear wheel's rim has got a series of quite shallow lacerations, less than a mil' deep bunched quite closely together (the effected area is no more than 1/8 of ...
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Can I run rim brakes on a disc rim?
I'm trying to buy a front wheel which will work with both disc and rim brakes so that I can use it on my cross bike (with rim brakes) and my mountain bike (with disc brakes) with a dynamo hub to power ...
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