By blackmountaincycles,
Filed under: What's in the stand
Yep, another Potts resto/rebuild. This one was Steve’s personal bike and is now in the hands of another local vintage bike aficionado. Like the white Potts mountain bike, it was ridden hard and put away totally filthy. After removing all the parts, and some serious time in a Dumonde Tech bath, fresh grease in all the Grease Guard ports, grease in the rollers of the brakes…and fresh cloth bar tape and the bike that had been neglected (sorry, Steve) was breathing fresh life. Check out the ultra-rare Mini-Cam brakes. They fit on a special custom brake boss – not a standard roller-cam/u-brake boss, much smaller in diameter.
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Nice blog post title! Don't rub it in or anything, Mike. Ha!
Question: On the brake cable routing for the rear brake: Where the cable breaks to go under the BB, does that braze on have a roller?
Nice bike at any rate.
No roller there. Just a drilled out hole. The part is there to make the cable/cam pull in-line with the brake rollers.
Thanks for the answer Mike. I appreciate your site and expertise a great deal.
I wonder why the roller cam brakes are not more common. They look like they would be great stoppers.
Several factors contributed to the death of the roller-cam. Mountain Bike Action, inept bike mechanics, Shimano's u-brake. Maybe I'll write a little something about it soon.
That's a pretty bike! It looks large – how tall is Steve?
He's in the 6'1" to 6'2" range.