Bottle dynamo bracket for braze-on boss

[fatboy]

My Dawes Horizon has two holes tapped on the inside of the left hand fork of the front forks. I take this to be for mounting a bracket for a bottle dynamo. I would like to move my dynamo to the front of the bike and using this would be the neatest solution.

However I can't find out if such a bracket is available and if so where would I get it. I phone Dawes who told me that they didn't speak to the public and gave me a couple of phone numbers of bike shops that stock Dawes bikes. This has so far drawn a blank. Even spa cycles weren't any use - they thought that the dynamo should bolt directly onto the fork but it won't work as it fouls the brake bosses. Any ideas?

[piedwagtail91]

sjs cycles have some brackets that may or may not work. they're the thorn stainless steel ones. i can't seem to link directly to them but this is the site http://www.sjscycles.co.uk go to lighting /spares and bulbs/ dynamo generator brackets

[davempiper]

I did get a reply from Dawes by e-mail about the vey same subject. They say the tapped holes inside left fork are to let gases escape during welding process, not for dynamo bracket at all. They are only tapped so that we can plug them with screws if we want. Why don't they do that then, it wouldnt seem too big a gesture on my £1,200 UltraGalaxy.

[leftpoole]

I did get a reply from Dawes by e-mail about the vey same subject. They say the tapped holes inside left fork are to let gases escape during welding process, not for dynamo bracket at all. They are only tapped so that we can plug them with screws if we want. Why don't they do that then, it wouldnt seem too big a gesture on my £1,200 UltraGalaxy.

Hello,
I used to have a Dawes Audax with these tapped holes. I made a bracket in a sort of dog leg and used it as Dynamo mount. It was actually a little close to the rim though it worked well.
John.

[fatboy]

I did get a reply from Dawes by e-mail about the vey same subject. They say the tapped holes inside left fork are to let gases escape during welding process, not for dynamo bracket at all. They are only tapped so that we can plug them with screws if we want. Why don't they do that then, it wouldnt seem too big a gesture on my £1,200 UltraGalaxy.

If Dawes had actually spoken to me I could have stopped going around the houses trying to find someone who knew.

So a Zinkens Dynashoe it is then. Anyone got one lying around that they don't want/need?

[Cunobelin]

Just come across this whilst looking for something else....

The Dawes reply is "interesting"

My wife's KaraKum has these tapped holes, and Dawes fit a bracket for the dynamo to them as a stock item!

[fatboy]

Cunobelin

Tell me more please. Where did you get the part from?

Thanks

Chris

[CJ]

I did get a reply from Dawes by e-mail about the vey same subject. They say the tapped holes inside left fork are to let gases escape during welding process, not for dynamo bracket at all. They are only tapped so that we can plug them with screws if we want. Why don't they do that then, it wouldnt seem too big a gesture on my £1,200 UltraGalaxy.

Dawes are making things up so as to get you out of their hair.

I have an old Giant mountain-bike with an identical fitting. It IS for a dynamo. I know that becasue when I bought it I saw similar Giant bikes for sale in Germany, fully kitted out with dynamos thus fitted.

Dawes do not make frames or forks anymore, they buy them from a firm who doubtless also supplies the (much larger) mainland Europe cycle market, where the major demand for high clearance 700C wheel forks is on trekking bikes supplied complete with dynamos.

Hence the bracket WILL be available, probably from the fork manufacturer (if Dawes could be bothered to ask them) or is possibly sourced from a third party by the continental firms who also buy these forks. But as the brackets are not likely to wear out or break before the forks, they might not be available separately even in Germany.

[fatboy]

I'm giving up on this and getting a Zinkens Dynashoe!

BTW on the lighting section on the CTC website CJ talks of English instructions being available on the website. Anyone have a link?

[piedwagtail91]

sjs at the link above are advertising the zinkens bracket.