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Old 08-11-19, 04:52 PM
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Fork/brake question

I'm building a 26" mountain bike with rim brakes. I have a Marzocchi MZ Comp fork (I know, heavy, cheep, etc...) the frame is a steel talon frame so I was intrigued by the Italian fork. Anyway, the fork doesn't have the Canti studs for the brakes to attach to the fork. It has the braze ons but not the studs. I'm trying to find out the size, thread pitch or what ever it is that I need to get them ordered.

any help will be appreciated.



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No idea if there is a standard, but the ones on my Surly are M10x1 . Take the fork to a bolt shop and see what screws in would be my advice....
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Apparently there are some exceptions to the 10 x 1 "standard," but I've never seen them. 10 x 1 is a fairly common thread size--rear derailleur mount, many QR axles--so it should be easy enough to check your bosses. Or remove one of the rears, see if it works in the front, and measure the diameter and pitch. (You may want to remove them anyway to strip the paint.)
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Most all the pivot studs I've dealt with have a fairly coarse thread pitch. Like 10x1.25, 8x1.25. There are different threadings and, for the newbie, which is needed can best be confirmed by actual trial fit. I have seen the fork needing different posts then the rear stays did. A good service focused shop (that did a lot of MtB work) likely has a box/draw full of possibilities. Andy
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Originally Posted by Trevtassie
No idea if there is a standard, but the ones on my Surly are M10x1 . Take the fork to a bolt shop and see what screws in would be my advice....
I was just hoping that someone had experience with these forks. I had hoped to avoid taking my bike in but that looks like what I'll have to do.

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Go to your local LBS, they probably have a box of them laying around as spare parts. Or they could order you some.
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Originally Posted by Jmpierce
I was just hoping that someone had experience with these forks. I had hoped to avoid taking my bike in but that looks like what I'll have to do.

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I suppose one could ride their bike to a friendly hardware store (or other source) and trial fit common bolts into the fork/stay pivot bases to find out the specific threading. Then when the search for pivot posts is made there's no guessing. Andy
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