Author Topic: Mongoose front hub brake? (Read 344 times)

Beelzebug · « **on:** August 19, 2011, 04:14 PM »

Can anyone out there shed any light of on a random memory flashback?...

Now it just might be my ageing sleep deprived fuddled brain playing tricks on me but I'm sure that BITD (84 ish?) that one of the local lads had a mongoose with what appeared to be some kind of front hub type brake setup on it... $:-\$

Am I just imagining it or did such a thing really exist...anyone?

lk_97 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2011, 06:14 PM »

Sounds like a disk brake?

HEYWOOD BMX · « **Reply #2 on:** August 19, 2011, 06:55 PM »

Sounds a bit Sturmey-Archer to me

Prob a drum brake.

Beelzebug · « **Reply #3 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:16 PM »

Yeah, drum brake definately

...some sort of cast alloy effort IIRC...

Cant for the life of me remember which species of mongoose it was, pretty sure it was chrome frame with blue bits though

Searched the net but failed to find anything at all...

lammychop · « **Reply #4 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:20 PM »

proberbly had a honda c90 front wheel on it

Picklez · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:31 PM »

there you go:

http://www.sturmey-archerheritage.com/index.php?page=history-detail&id=128

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=334226

Taipan · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:44 PM »

Some geezer on bmx beat used to ride with a front drum brake,cant remember who tho

Beelzebug · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2011, 08:04 PM »

The pic on the sturmey-archer site looks quite similar to what I remember

Dont think it would have been a mod to the bike though because I'm also pretty sure that the lads younger brother had an identical mongoose with a drum brake too.

Anyone know if these were fitted as standard by mongoose on certain models?

btw, ta for the links