Something lots of people want, and is hard, and I don’t really like to do, but want to get better at is adding disk brake tabs to a frame. People also want them added to forks, but that’s really not a good idea. Forks designed for disk brakes are way bigger and way thicker to deal with all the extra torque that disk brakes make and put on the blade. I’ve heard some builders do it, I’ve also heard from a lot of those builders that they won’t do it anymore after having several forks fail!

Which brings me to this first bike. It’s an old big GT that the customer has had since new. He picked up a Surly threadless fork for disk brakes, and I added a tab to the rear of the frame. He got it all powder coated to match and I built it up. A pretty cool update.

Next we have a few frames that I added a disk tab to and a stress relieving brace. Most disk brake tabs will require the stiffener tab, and having some cable guides added too.