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again, wrong thread 😂 you want this: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/182184/?offset=8700#comment17241724
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Not very helpful, but I think only Shimano cross MTB and road disc. I don’t believe SRAM do.
Not sure how it relates to Amey’s build thread though.
amey
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@infmz
Never thought I'd need to post here, but here we are.
Bought some SRAM Apex post-mount calipers for my flat-mount Diverge running Rival. I knew what I was doing - the callipers were a bargain and I wanted to swap out the Hope RX4 callipers for a future project. Got. Straight forward job in principle, but ran into hurdles every step of the way.
First, I had to cut the hoses as they were using Hope fixtures. The rear was excessively long and wasn't routed properly either, so this was a good opportunity to fix that.
Then I got some olive and barbs from my LBSs and they turned out to be the wrong type and didn't fit, even though the kit they had suggested they were the right size. Got that solved.
Third problem, the front hose is now a tad too short to reach the calliper as it's on the flat-to-post-mount bracket! A headache indeed but I had some hose spare.
When I came to fitting the new hose, turns out the road levers use those banjos and not the nuts you get on modern SRAM brake callipers or MTB levers
So I decided to do the rear only for now and yet another problem - the nuts that were given with the olive and barb were again, the wrong diameter!
I've officially given up and am just going to pay an LBS. Unless anyone here from East London is excited with jobs like this?