Subject: RE: Disk front ends
Author: David Washburn
Date: Jan 29, 2001, 3:10 PM
Post ID: 1705170460
murp-@aol.com wrote:
| David, After sleeping on this little problem, |
You could sleep with this question gnawing at your entrails?
| I can't believe that the bearing carrier (the type for mounting a disk) for the left side would have a different width >than the right side bearing carrier |
Believe it. The Bob Nolan spacer mentioned by KO makes up the
difference and it is significant. I have one screwed to my wheel as we
speak.
| ...I think the same part should be useable on each side. If identical bearing carriers are used on each side, >and a spacer of the same width is used on each side, and identical >disks are used... |
Amen brother, but this is what happened: Guzzi took the newly developed
Tonti front end and fitted to the Eldo. They couldn't use the "T"
bearing carriers because of the ungainly width of the Eldo front end.
Thrifty to the last, they used one carrier and designed one new one to
make it fit. Voila, the bike is cancelled and the part is never made
again because it only fits one bike made for one year.
| Unless, of course, someone with more knowledge than me tells me that I'm wrong...... |
I am going to flip my wheel, switch my carriers and try again. It's
cheap and it might work. If not I have my machinist's number on speed
dial for that shim.
David in NYC