At some point, keeping too much stuff gets beyond ridiculous, and I've reached that point. So, I'll give away, for the cost of shipping to any US location, my set of three more-or-less complete Phil "disk" brakes. This will leave me with only one, for sentiment's sake. If there is more than one person as deranged as I am, to even consider giving these things a home, I'll choose the loser 24 hr after this appears in CR Digest form.
The Phil's design, based on a motorcycle clutch geometry, is sublime. The machining is beautiful. They are easily adapted to many different bikes, since the driver mounts on standard 1.37x24 threading. But, they fail too easily in use. Early ones, with un-reinforced fibre disk, shed splines and spun freely. Later ones, with metal support, fried nicely in place.
So, what's the catch? The winning loser, the one who gets them, tells the most convining yarn of why he wants them (no woman would be this deranged?), combined with a fervent promise that they will never be used for the intended purpose of stopping a bike. I'll even include a genuine copy of a copy of the mounting instructions.
So, the text may be ironically humorous, but I am happy to send these all to some deserving home.
thanks
harvey sachs
mcLean va