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• #2
Back brakes have a much shorter bolt than front brakes. I'm guessing you found a back brake in your shed.
(FWIW When I built up a bike for a friend with that fork I used a Tektro R312S, which is as generic a road bike short reach calliper brake as there is)
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• #3
Thanks Grams I'll get one in the post or similar.
Send my love to Gwynn! :D
from your fellow control oper8or
I bought an aventon frame with a brake on it a while ago. Unfortunately it had seized and the nut was rounded so it had to be drilled off.
After discarding the ruined brake I returned home to get a spare old campy one from the shed, feeling very smug that I had saved such a thing for this eventuality. Alas the Aventon uses a lite carbon fork meaning my hoarding was all for naught since the campy brake was for older skinny metal forks (it seems). https://www.aventon.com/products/lite-carbon-fork
Does anyone have any strong opinions on how I should be sure that a new caliper is the right size to go on the fork before I order it? I am aware that mounting bolt lengths etc do vary. I've sent aventon an email but who knows if they'll come back to me.