Magura rim brake help

[MarinMartin]

Ok so it's stupid question time. :roll:

I've got a set of Magura Tomac (HS33 apparently) rim brakes on my spesh. Now the problem I have is the original forks are a little 'tired' so was thinking about spending a bit of time and money on it and upgrading the forks but keeping and fixing up the maguras. I know I can get modern 100mm forks with V brake mounts cheap but I've been told that the maguras don't fit onto normal V brake mounts :| .

They look like V brake mounts to me but there seems to be some confusion on the interwebs about whether or not they'll fit (different positions maybe? I have no idea). Haven't got any v brake forks around at the moment to see and at the same time don't want to spend money on forks that won't fit them so does anyone know if they will fit.

 

[Retro Spud]

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Hi Martin

Magura's can be mounted to forks with Canti or V brakes no problem, both Gerard and Regan had them mounted on their Mayhem rides.

there are different mounts for trial bikes as seen below that bolt on, everything else uses canti mounts so you should be fine.

spud

 

[MarinMartin]

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Yeah I loved Regan's alpinestars which has triggered me to get on with this build now.

And that would probably explain it as nearly all of the sites I found information on were talking about trials bikes. Ideal. Time to get the show on the road.

Cheers spud. How's your leg anyway?

 

[Gerard]

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Martin
As Spud says they pretty much work on any mounts.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

I've had a 'few' sets of maguras, and have only found one set of canti/v brake mounts that gave me problems (they were an unusually wide spacing on a set of seatstays)

Assuming yours are bolted to canti/v mounts, they'll bolt up fine after a bit of adjustment.

The only time they wouldn't was if they were the 'Firmtech' model. they're attached in a totally different way that looks nothing like a canti post, and were the only real change to the magura slave cylinders for years. Prettymuch only found on magura/rond forks i believe?

 

[VTFoco2001]

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And early PACE.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Not quite, the early pace system is the same twin bolt design still used on trials bikes that uses standard slave cylinders.

The Firmtech looks like this;

 

[MarinMartin]

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Ok so ive done something stupid and lost a bolt. :facepalm: . anyone know where I can get a replacement or even what its called. Its the bolt that holds the booster to the caliper and also secures the clamp around the brake. Its a 5mm allen bolt but the thread is smaller than brake mount bolts ( i tried :roll: ).

Just when i thought I was getting somewhere haha

 

[bartsince1975]

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Show us a picture of what you need. I have some spare bolts and might be able to help out.

 

[Gerard]

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Can really only be one of 2 bolts from the description.