I'm just doing the final reassembly on my looptail ripper from BITD, and as I'm bolting up the rear brakes (MX 1000's), I see that I'm going to need to have the rear wheel at least 2/3-1/2 of the way up the drop-outs in order for the brake pads to reach the wheel?!

I don't remember that issue before, and the only way I can see to get the wheel further back is to run the brakes upside down. Anyone else have this issue?

that was always an issue with those frames. just about everyone ran the brakes up-side down.

All PK's had that same problem. On my 1 st PK I Ran it upsidedown, On my 2 nd I switched to a Shimano 1020 it worked great. The Problem with it upsidedown is Your Foot Hits it. I had about 5 pairs of Van's with the same hole in them, from brakes being upsidedown. But It Works!!!

i think most of my PK owning mates (I could only dream of having one BITD) ran Shimano's when I was a kid....


I have a PK now though ! LOL !! with MX1000's, with the wheel right up in the dropouts though....

I'm thinking it wouldn't be too hard to have an inconspicuous extension plate made out of billet. The bike looks alot cooler somehow with a longer wheelbase... with it cranked up, it looks sort of squat.

I remember they made some type of pad extenders (but they did not work well), then there was a guy at are track that made a extention for the caliper it did work. It was made out of Aluminum it was 2 Pcs. With 2 hols in each . 1 hole had a bolt thru it and the brake bridge the other went to caliper it had washers to take up the space. It was a cool Idea and gave him a lot of space. Again this was a race bike and not a show bike. Not that it looked bad just different.

I'm thinking something simple and elegant... something that fits under the brake bridge, one threaded hole for a button head bolt on a raised section that inserts into the brake bridge slot (to maintain alignment), and another raised section with an unthreaded hole for the brake bolt. If you perched the brake on a skyway tuff pad finned standoff, you'd barely even see this thing.

If you only put it on one side there would be to much flex on that side of brake bridge and could cause damage to the frame.

I'd be surprised if it did—the brakes don't develop that much torque. Maybe two bolts intead of one in the slot, but the bolt head(s) would esentialy sandwich the bridge between them and the bracket.

Pk's are very well known for broken brake bridges because the caliper flex. I am not saying it will but when ever you add something as you described it will add leverage to the caliper pressure.