A couple months ago I built my first motorized bike, attaching a Zeda Silver Slant engine kit from BicycleEngines.com to an old Trek 4300 MTB.
I got the bike running fairly smoothly, and I now want to make some upgrades to improve safety and refine the ride a bit. My long term plans are adding triple suspension forks, a puch maxi seat, and a head/taillight system powered by a 12V drill battery.
The immediate upgrade needed is ditching the rag joint and switching from rim to disc brakes. After looking around here, I’ve decided that the simplest route to do this is to purchase mag wheels since they have disc brakes and sprockets integrated already. I like the look of the black 10 spoke mag wheels from BBR tuning.
I would consider heavy duty spoke wheels if they had an integrated sprocket like mag wheels.
My question for this is, what extra hardware am I going to need to complete the task of switching wheels? The bike has mounting holes for a disc brake caliper adapter. Will I be able to reuse my rim brake cables on the calipers that come with the wheel? I image they will be too short or have the wrong mounting setup.
This also might be a good opportunity to ditch the 21 speed assembly for a single speed and switch to the double brake lever I purchased but never installed.
I’d just like some advice for what I need to purchase to successfully change out the wheels and get the brakes working and shifters replaced / removed.
I got the bike running fairly smoothly, and I now want to make some upgrades to improve safety and refine the ride a bit. My long term plans are adding triple suspension forks, a puch maxi seat, and a head/taillight system powered by a 12V drill battery.
The immediate upgrade needed is ditching the rag joint and switching from rim to disc brakes. After looking around here, I’ve decided that the simplest route to do this is to purchase mag wheels since they have disc brakes and sprockets integrated already. I like the look of the black 10 spoke mag wheels from BBR tuning.
I would consider heavy duty spoke wheels if they had an integrated sprocket like mag wheels.
My question for this is, what extra hardware am I going to need to complete the task of switching wheels? The bike has mounting holes for a disc brake caliper adapter. Will I be able to reuse my rim brake cables on the calipers that come with the wheel? I image they will be too short or have the wrong mounting setup.
This also might be a good opportunity to ditch the 21 speed assembly for a single speed and switch to the double brake lever I purchased but never installed.
I’d just like some advice for what I need to purchase to successfully change out the wheels and get the brakes working and shifters replaced / removed.