CRAZY Idea or not?

[gmcampy]

1986 Raliegh Marathon, Lugged 1" Cro Mo steel....considering modifying frame and fork to accept Disk brakes. Wife says no "new" bikes so I just keep reinventing what I have already. Crazy? Doable? Opinions?

[saab2000]

Originally Posted by gmcampy

1986 Raliegh Marathon, Lugged 1" Cro Mo steel....considering modifying frame and fork to accept Disk brakes. Wife says no "new" bikes so I just keep reinventing what I have already. Crazy? Doable? Opinions?

Terrible idea.

Spacing is wrong, tubes are not designed to handle that kind of torque, dropout on the front will throw the wheel, etc.

Move along...

[thirdgenbird]

Take a look at the winter serotta. New fork and modified rear triangle. It's probably not ideal, but it is doable with a nice end result. It won't be as cheap as replacing the frame though.

I would consider a front disc. It has crossed my mind. Get a wound up disc fork, caliper, and new front wheel. Most of your braking power is up front and a good caliper providers all the power possible out back. I still debate it. You could even run a nice disc specific carbon clincher up front with a alloy rim out back. Done right, I think it would look at perform nicely.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by saab2000

Terrible idea.

Spacing is wrong, tubes are not designed to handle that kind of torque, dropout on the front will throw the wheel, etc.

Move along...

Concur. I would bet a hard brake effort would bend that fork.

[gmcampy]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Concur. I would bet a hard brake effort would bend that fork.

Thats why yall are the experts! Thanks, I will keep riding it with the rim brakes then...not worth converting to cantis at this point. The brakes are upgraded already so I do have plenty of stopping power, just LIKE the reliability of disks on the Fargo

[thirdgenbird]

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=157586

[gmcampy]

Originally Posted by thirdgenbird

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=157586

NICE! who did the work Winter Cycles?

[jtakeda]

Originally Posted by gmcampy

NICE! who did the work Winter Cycles?

Yeah, winter (Eric) did the work. Looks like he did a really good job.

[RedRider]

Originally Posted by jtakeda

Yeah, winter (Eric) did the work. Looks like he did a really good job.

What Eric did looks great and he was working with a Serotta not a 30 year old Raleigh.
The cost in having Eric or another framebuilder on his level do the conversion would probably exceed the price of a new disk frame.

[thirdgenbird]

Originally Posted by RedRider

What Eric did looks great and he was working with a Serotta not a 30 year old Raleigh.
The cost in having Eric or another framebuilder on his level do the conversion would probably exceed the price of a new disk frame.

Absolutely. I already covered that in my first post. Cheaper than a divorce though

[RedRider]

Originally Posted by thirdgenbird

Absolutely. I already covered that in my first post. Cheaper than a divorce though

Have Eric build you a Winter with disk. Just paint it to match the Raleigh and buy the Marathon decals online...

[thirdgenbird]

Originally Posted by RedRider

Have Eric build you a Winter with disk. Just paint it to match the Raleigh and buy the Marathon decals online...

You win.

[gmcampy]

Originally Posted by RedRider

Have Eric build you a Winter with disk. Just paint it to match the Raleigh and buy the Marathon decals online...

Now we are talking, LOL

[jr59]

Originally Posted by RedRider

Have Eric build you a Winter with disk. Just paint it to match the Raleigh and buy the Marathon decals online...

thats a good idea