Originally Posted by
Steel Charlie
"at that point "originality" has no meaning anymore, and it allows reusing the existing caliper"
For 99.99% of the bikes people are riding that ship of "originality" has long since sailed. Recessed bolts are cleaner and likely stronger for being shorter. And, yes I realize that the OCD has no use for reasonable or practical.
Above posts already tell how we did it BITD and that works just fine. Probably done by a few thousands of people and still to this day. NBD
sure, of course you can do what you did BITD on your bikes and for whatever reasons you did it, but perhaps what you did BITD is not what the OP wants to do with their frame. maybe your "cleaner" is another persons "inauthentic."
I have some forks I have drilled out for pragmatic reasons, and some forks, especially that were part of original framesets, that I choose not to drill out because I wanted to keep the frameset whole and somewhat original. ie, there are legitimate solutions to the brake-nut problem that allow both options. Why do you feel so threatened by that?