brakes on 20"

[mornish]

hi. I do trials and alot of muni on my kh trials, and I was wondering if
it would be worth getting brakes for a 20".

Miles


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[Jerrick]

Nah, I dont see why you would need them. My DX has brake mounts on it,
and I dont see why they have them. The only brakes I need are my legs!


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[maxisback]

haha no don get brakes.. brakes for trials well mess you up.. and if
your doing dh on your 20 well.. your suposed to use a 24" for downhill
and brake would be a BIG waste of money


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[kington99]

Yeah really don't bother, there have been threads on this, some people
suggest that for some very particular moves (landing perpendicular on a
rail i think was one of them, and for mounting on a rail) that a brake
is useful, but for everything else it is just extra weight, complexity
and cost. As no video of any of the top riders (Syco productions, KH,
Shaun Johanssen, KOxx etc.) has ever shown someone riding a 20" with
brake we can assume that if they don't need them you don't either.

Also the KH 20" frame doesn't have brake mounts, and welding brake
mounts which are only commercially available in steel to an aluminium
frame is impossible, so you're either going to have to get a new
(heavier) frame with brake mounts or have some custom fabrication and
welding work done, neither of which are cheap.


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[pdc]

I had one. Not very useful.http://tinyurl.com/p2hjr

Actually I had 2 http://tinyurl.com/jpfal


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[trials_uni]

I think thatbrakes on a 20" is kinda dumb and almost entirely useless.
The only use i would ever get out of the brakes would be for mounting
on skinnies or dropping to skinnies. Plus as kington said...there are
no alu. brake mounts out there.

-Phil


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[mornish]

ok thx. i use my trials for muni cause im really little, and ive been
putting all my money into my trials. also i really like doing the
trialsy sections more.


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