Having brakes without drilling your fork may be worth it to you, but please don't come back crying to the list when you take your clamp-on whatever off your bike to find marks on your highly valued paint job. You don't get somethin' for nothin', you know.
Brakes in the front make a lot more sense to me, anyway, unless you are using one of those ratcheting sprockets in the back that we used to call a freewheel before the English speakers started their little snit.
Steve Barner, learning French in Bolton, Vermont
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:31:12 +0900
> From: Dennis Young <mail@woodworkingboy.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]Brake for track bikes
>
> Some people were asking about the clamp on rear brake for track bikes that
> is available in Japan. I checked on it. They have two types, a regular
and
> a *deluxe* model. The regular is a DiaCompe caliper and the deluxe is a
> Shimano. I believe that the lever is a nondescript type that comes with
> both models. Then there is the cable and clamping plates that comes along
> with them. The regular type is about $22, and the deluxe is $52.
>
> Dennis Young
> Hotaka, Japan