Originally Posted by
HillRider
Tektro's R539 long reach work well and are pretty reasonably priced. I expect the Nashbar house brand brakes are the same model. Both have recessed nut mounting so if your bike takes externally nutted brakes you will have to drill out the fork crown and brake bridge to use them.
Tektro also makes the R559 long reach with both externally nutted and recessed configurations. They are a little more expensive but they're very nice looking brakes. Bought a set for my '82 Fuji project. Got the wrong ones so bought another set in the correct configuration. It's a NOS frameset, couldn't bring myself to drill it.
Originally Posted by
koolerb
I need the recessed nut front. I've seen some front brakes described as having "standard" front nut. Is standard nutted or recessed?
And is the 539 nutted or recessed. The Tektro website doesn't say. They show the 559 available either way.
Just saw this after my initial response, I have a NIB set of recessed 559's I'm not going to use. If I keep 'em I'm afraid I'll buy another frame so I can use them.
