Retro functional hybrid hype train

Decided something about the turbo is wrong - in contrast with the bullmoose and fat tires - too 90s I think - imagine that.

Ti Flite my man. Always the answer. Timeless saddle.

Did you buy those bars second had or are the Nitto btw?

Yeah I know! - got a poor man version on the way (charge spoon ). Will be close enough I hope. Bars are the ones from Planet X im impatient and - worked out cheaper than a stem converter /stem and bar combo in the end.

Gaaaaaaa stupid idiot bike. Amazon primed a set of Alivio V brakes on impulse thinking they would have differnt tooling or whatevs . Nope - same as the Deore- pin barely enters hole and arm ‘well’ must be at least 3-4mm shallower than the boss ‘shoulder’ WTF do I do now !? Reuse the original Altus cantis ? Try modern cantis ? Try avid v brakes ? Find some ‘vintage ‘ Shimano V brakes ? .....

Anyone care to advise re. V-brakes to fit mid 90's cantilever posts ? - the thicker 'shoulder' of the post that inserts in the brake arm base is at least 6-7mm long - Modern deore/alivio only have a recess of 3-4mm deep . So the arm does not seat flush and the spring tips are in the holes but only barely. Very weird that shimano is so different to clarks/promax (which do seat properly). There is little definitive info online that I can find and i'm a bit stuck...

I might be reading into this wrong (maybe a photo might help?), but would something like this work?

Thanks - the posts are braze ons so not removable unfortunately but yeah finding different posts might have done it.

I've just run in to what I think is this exact problem - new v-brake arms sit too high on the canti studs and barely engage the spring. I need to see if they're removable studs and so if a new set would fix this.

I also had this problem with my ~1990 Marin. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea how I solved it. Maybe just bought new brakes. And like you, I can't find any information on the internet about it - maybe @Hulsroy can help you, as a person who knows a lot about cantis/framebuilding/old frames

You could chop the posts off and tap whatever is left for a removable stud as linked above, I think @M_V came up with that idea.

Glad to know I’m not alone - @t0-ster ‘s marin build up thread is a similar vintage frame set - the brakes look to sit properly on the posts. But I’m thinking at some point (maybe recently) Shimano changed their brake arms. Can’t really imagine why - cheap v brakes seem to have a deeper recess so I may be forced to use tektros. Older ‘vintage’ Shimano MTB might work but struggling to find a cheap set on eBay. Ho hum

Erm..DONE -at fucking last - shit-ish pic on the way to work for proof. before and after.

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Nicely done

What was the solution with the brakes?

Tektro's :-)

Turned out lovely!

Nice! What are the clamps (if that's what they are) on the TT?

Thanks all - The braze on stops put the exposed wire right in the line of fire when I threw my leg over the TT (when using kid seat) and I kept catching my boot on it. So I hacked off the orig stops and used clamp on stops from sjs. Annoyingly the TT is 25.4mm so I had to shim the tube - for which I used cut off jubilee clip bands. The stops are positioned so the cable is out of the way. Not elegant but functional.