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@Bartroll, I'm currently working on my GT all terra tequesta but will change a few things. so I have original GT stem, original GT handlebars and dia compe XCE brakes and brake levers with all small parts for brakes. And the stem is originally drilled to support the front brake. Let me know if you're interested.
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I only need brakes and cables. Any recomendation of cheap brakes that will work with wide tyres?
I've been looking at wiggle but all of them are at least 40€. Which is almost the price of the bike.Buy used brakes then? A full set of decent old V-brakes should fit around wide tyres , and not cost too much.
That said, just because the bike was bought cheap, it doesn't mean that everything you put on it has to cost a lot less than it.
I come across similar sentiments when people buy nice old-ish cars (like '80s Mercs and BMWs) - they balk at buying new dealer-price parts for them on the grounds that the car only cost them only a couple of grand, forgetting that the cars were like forty or fifty grand new.
This attitude puzzles me.
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kifla
Mr_B
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About to buy this:
55€ without tyres or 75€ including tyres. No photos of tyres so not sure if I'll buy.
Not sure what I'd do with this really.
I only need brakes and cables. Any recomendation of cheap brakes that will work with wide tyres?
I've been looking at wiggle but all of them are at least 40€. Which is almost the price of the bike.