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  • About 80% of the components and gubbins are here, which means I only have to press the headset/crown race on properly, and the wheels arrive before I have a rideable bike.

    The brakes, predictably especially going off past comments on this forum, don’t fit as the crown race/rear bridge drilling is too narrow for the nut. I reckon another 0.8mm wider and I’ll be able to fit modern Tektro long-drops on, which is preferable both because then it’ll fit 700C wheels (instead of 27”) and more importantly, because those are the brakes I have.

    There was some discussion for and against drilling out brake holes a while ago, what’s the consensus? Drill it out or try and find a solution that fits?

    EDIT: I’m not being lazy, I did scroll to the previous page to see what you all say, but I don’t think that’s an ideal solution.

  • those are the brakes I have.

    If you have Allen key brakes, fit the front one on the back with a nut and drill the back of the fork crown to 8mm so you can fit the rear brake at the front with an extra long tube nut


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  • Ah so that’s what that meant! Thank you, I didn’t think that was a viable solution at the time.
    Is there a reason why you simply wouldn’t just drill both front and rear out to 8mm, though? I reckon there’s enough metal on the rear brake bridge at any rate.

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