V-Brake bosses issue

[avbro]

Hi, as a project I found and bought 00 Kona Hahanna with P2 fork. I noticed that brake bosses are welded or blazed.
That sounds not BIFL for me. Anyone here had experience of rewelding bosses' bases to have a replacable bosses?
I don't want to swap frame or fork, I have modern bike for that sh*t.

 

[Bike Hoarder]

Why do they need to be replaceable? I've never broken a canti boss off a fork, and if you do P2 forks aren't that difficult to get hold of.

 

[avbro]

Why do they need to be replaceable? I've never broken a canti boss off a fork, and if you do P2 forks aren't that difficult to get hold of.

It's easy to replace a fork, but not easy to replace a frame. BIFL means buy it for life, I want to service it cheap and ride a lot, we have no good framebuilders here to weld in new bosses.

 

[Ippikin]

I have seen bosses damaged through hamfisted spannering and / or filing to 'correct brake wobble'. If neither of these applies then rest assured you'll have no reason to replace them. Personally I find bikes and parts RLML ~ rarely leave my life

 

[hamster]

I think the only time you see replaceable bosses is on aluminium frames as you need the canti boss to be steel. I'm happily riding a 1990 Marin frame as my tourer, which has now done 20+ years with Maguras without any boss problems.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I've seen a few broken bosses on 20yo Forks.
A few, out of probably 10,000.

The weak spot is where the boss mount joins the fork blade.

So a replaceable boss could still break - the advantage would be in build quality not construction style.

If one cracks, say in 2050, you could always post the fork to a suitable repair shop.