{"id":3386,"date":"2013-12-11T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/adding-a-disc-brake-to-an-older-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:26","slug":"adding-a-disc-brake-to-an-older-kh24-mountain-unicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/adding-a-disc-brake-to-an-older-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a disc brake to an older KH24 mountain unicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I have an older KH 24 mountain unicycle that doesn&#8217;t have the disc brake mount on it. During my Switzerland\/Italy tour in the summer of 2012 I used a D-brake adapter (from unicycle.com) and KH spirit cranks to go with a disc brake on my KH36.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wilton told me I could machine the back of a D-brake adapter to make it work with the KH\/Schlumpf geared hub:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0496-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0496.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He warned me that hard braking might bend it, so I was always paranoid to really grab the brake hard while on the tour. After the tour, I got a new KH36 frame (and ended up making my own V-36 frame with a brazed on caliper mount).<\/p>\n<p>I decided to use the D-brake on my KH24. During the first ride I did some really hard braking, and sure enough, it bent:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0497-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0497.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note it bent at the corner, and wasn&#8217;t due to being machined. It is just not quite strong enough of a design.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to brush up on my ugly TIG welding and made a little adapter for the KH24 and welded it to my frame:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0493-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0493.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will see how well my weld holds up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an older KH 24 mountain unicycle that doesn&#8217;t have the disc brake mount on it. During my Switzerland\/Italy tour in the summer of 2012 I used a D-brake adapter (from unicycle.com) and KH&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/adding-a-disc-brake-to-an-older-kh24-mountain-unicycle\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unicycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0493.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}