V-brake day
After practicing a couple of days ago I finally cleaned the paint off the midlifecrisismobile’s seatstays and brazed a pair of canti posts into place. Not the best brazing I’ve ever done (bernzomatic torches and bicycle frames have a sort of strained relationship) but it seems solid enough for me to rattlecan (Rustoleum “satin red” is a very close match to the burgundy paint on the MLCM) and bolt on a pair of cheap v-brakes I scavenged from a Wal*Mart special.
Now to take it out on a couple of 200ks to see whether the brazes will hold up.
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*tubing
The Paterek manual doesn’t mention anything about seatstay requirements for canti studs; perhaps the concern is for race-weight seatstays?
You may well be right. I have hardly anything like expertise on the matter.
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I hope that works out for you, but as far as I know, bikes designed for cantilevers typically have thicker walled running in their seat stays than bikes that do not.