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For those who evangelise cuntilevers?

A chopped supermarket basket worked well as substitute for a fancy Wald

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/374256/?offset=25#comment16582370

Looks great - what did you do to neaten it up after you snipped it down?

Looks very pro!
All snipped at to the same length and then rolled over the horizontal bar? Very slick! I may have to take a trip to stainsbury’s myself.

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I would love to see this. A roller is the kind of thing you have in your house, somewhere. It'd turn up once you started looking for it. Go on @AlexD. Canticunts unite

I’m going to pinch the first unattended basket I see

Cut the vertical wires with some excess and roll over. It's surprisingly sturdy. You could Dremel the ends of you wanted to be super neat.

I thought I used to see them discarded everywhere, the minute I started looking I didn't find one and ended up buying a wald. Reverse baader-meinhoff

yeah used to see a fair few knocking about. a lot of the supermarkets seem to have swapped to crappy plastic ones now

Would this work for your bodge, instead of pivoting on the seatclamp bolt, use a bolt through the rack mount. It's only about 30mm long from the pivot point

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I don’t think it would work through the rack mounts - i think it would still mean the straddle cable would be way too low. I do wonder if it would work on the seat clamp bolt though - it might clear the end of the top tube - at the moment the surly one I have doesn’t.

I’m very close to giving up on all of this and buying mini-Vs though. My main gripe with them is aesthetics and tyre clearance. I don’t want to use full Vs as I might want to put drops on this at some point (plus my flat bar levers are canti/road pull).

Cane Creek Direct Curve 3 v-brakes might be better.

We're coming on for the third page of this canti saga.. i used to like this thread!

Yeah, I feel like I’ve single-handedly killed this thread - sorry everyone!

I don’t think I’m even going to resolve it, so it’s all been for nothing too 😁

Coool

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Just been through all this myself, ended up with TRP CX 9, and they just work betterer. Still trying to finesse enough clearance for mudguards now

Is that a bodge? They've gone to all the trouble of brazing tabs in the correct place to attach a bit of chainring to brace for the disc brake when they could've easily just stuck a canti in there.

I’ve gone with some 90mm mini-Vs as well. Should be fine with the 40mm tyres in there at the moment, but was hoping to be able to go larger. We’ll see.

I think the repurposing of the chainring makes it a bodge albeit a very well executed one (that requires skill and specialist tools) that is functional and pleasing to look at : ).

easily just stuck a canti in there

Maybe we’re seeing a bit of canti brake backlash in action..

I guess if they'd run out of steel tubes that could be cut to length it's a bodge, otherwise I think it's just making something.

Quite fun either way TBH.

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