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Title: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: Swivel on September 08, 2008, 05:36 PM

Dan Harris has already given me some advice with this but I thought i'd post on here also. I've got these arayas and didn't realise they had a coaster arm on them :( but got no choice but to use them on this ride coming up. So... how can you fix this on to the bike without a coaster brake and has anyone got any photos of this done?

Thanks,

Matt  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: jackel on September 08, 2008, 05:38 PM

matt people used to use a seat clamp :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: thebigdog on September 08, 2008, 05:40 PM

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o140/thebigdog25/sportdroput1.jpg)

a la oldschool

on my old torker sport

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: Swivel on September 08, 2008, 05:41 PM

I see now! Brilliant stuff thanks lads  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: SteveG on September 08, 2008, 05:58 PM

I had a hinged seat post clamp on my bike and had a piece of rubber hose of some sort between it and the frame. To get a perfect fit I tweaked the coaster arm a bit to make it all line up.

I made this one at work for something to do, not a brilliant picture though.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c42/Good4x4/Coasterarm.jpg)

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: fugazi on September 09, 2008, 09:11 AM

I remember using one of those long strips of metal with the holes in that used to come with car stereo's / electric aerials, looked a bit rough but worked well!

Title: Re: Fitting suntour coaster brake on to the bike with no coaster bridge?
Post by: gary4130 on September 10, 2008, 08:13 AM

matt, you could  always take the coaster arm off and the guts out of the hub and make it a freecoaster-so you dont have to fix a plate to the frame