Bicycle Mechanics - Need a competent shop to face my disk brake mount

I've been tolerating the incessant rubbing of my front brake for months now on my newest bike. It is equiped with Magura Julies--hydraulic disks for those that aren't familiar. Anyway, the tabs on the front fork position the brake caliper too far inboard. In other words, shims aren't going to solve the problem rather material needs to be carefully removed from the fork mount to center the caliper over the disk. I've tried all the quick fixes like removing paint from the fork mount and "reseting" the caliper (per Magura's instruction) by holding the disk in place while an assistant squeezes the brake lever. But none of these techniques solve the problem for long.

I'm practically car free and all of the LBS are not equiped with the tools/skills to perform this surgery on my fork. Thus far I've been unwilling to make a several hundred mile trip to fix this aggrevating problem. My question is could I mail the front wheel and fork and brake to a shop that someone on this forum knew that could do the job correctly? Do I absolutely need to bring in the entire bike to get this corrected? Am I just better off getting a mechanical with more adjustments? Is a new, different brand of fork likely to solve the problem?

That is something for a machine shop, not an LBS, if it is that far off.

No, actually Magura sells a facing tool to bicycle shops that they will not offer to the public for whatever reasons. I've been told by Magura that "competent" shops have this tool. I suppose that makes my local shops that have been around for decades incompetent then?

Factory certified incompetent. It dosen't get much better than that.

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=137

Big thanks! As a road cyclist I'm new to hyd. brakes, and had just about given up on the concept because of the tight tolerances and the crazy squealing. Now I know what to ask for for father's day.

I've been tolerating the incessant rubbing of my front brake for months now on my newest bike. It is equiped with Magura Julies--hydraulic disks for those that aren't familiar. Anyway, the tabs on the front fork position the brake caliper too far inboard. In other words, shims aren't going to solve the problem rather material needs to be carefully removed from the fork mount to center the caliper over the disk. I've tried all the quick fixes like removing paint from the fork mount and "reseting" the caliper (per Magura's instruction) by holding the disk in place while an assistant squeezes the brake lever. But none of these techniques solve the problem for long.

I'm practically car free and all of the LBS are not equiped with the tools/skills to perform this surgery on my fork. Thus far I've been unwilling to make a several hundred mile trip to fix this aggrevating problem. My question is could I mail the front wheel and fork and brake to a shop that someone on this forum knew that could do the job correctly? Do I absolutely need to bring in the entire bike to get this corrected? Am I just better off getting a mechanical with more adjustments? Is a new, different brand of fork likely to solve the problem?

I have a facing tool in my shop, but they are only effective for calipers which mount without an adapter bracket. If I am not mistaken, the Magura does mount with a bracket, but this gives you another option. Determine how much you need to move the caliper and take the bracket to a machine shop and have that much milled off the mounting face.
Dan Burkhart

It dosen't take rocket science to figure out how to use a facing tool.:rolleyes:

My Julies bolt directly to the fork.

True. But it takes a precision tool to face the surfaces perpendicular to the axle.


It dosen't take rocket science to figure out how to use a facing tool.:rolleyes:

True. But it takes a precision tool to face the surfaces perpendicular to the axle.
Sorry the comment was towards Avalanche