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Motolite

For those people still running v/linear/direct pull brakes, we offer the Motolite. This brake has proven itself to be the best of this genre time and time again: it’s high-powered, has excellent modulation and is easy to adjust/maintain.

$188.50 – $212.00

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Technical Information

  • Material
    6061 Aluminum
  • Weight
    137g
  • Finish
    Anodized or Polished
  • Anodized Color
    Black, Purple or Silver
  • Cable Pull
    Long Pull ↓

    Long pull brakes have more leverage than short pull brakes and require a longer amount of cable to be pulled when they are actuated.

    They are intended only for use with long pull brake levers, such as our Love Levers or Cross Lever.

  • Included Brake Pads
    Salmon Kool Stop Thinline
  • Additional Information
    Download
  • Brake Pivot - Exploded View
    Download
  • Exploded Assembly Drawing
    Exploded Assembly Drawing
  • Spring Placement
    Exploded Assembly Drawing

Product Story

All Motolite’s have the capability of running a larger size wheel. In other words, the arms allow the pads to travel way up the arm so you could say, run a 650b or 700c wheel on a bike designed for 26”wheels.

This brake is 100% machined in-house, from 6061 Aluminum. Like all our brakes, these feature our over-sized sealed pivot sleeves machined to a tolerance of plus or minus one thousandths of an inch. And of course our independently adjustable square wire springs keep everything snappy and balanced.

The quick release mechanism is super simple and always reliable. Why doesn’t everybody do it like this?

Yes, disc brakes are taking over. We’re fine with that (ahem, Klampers), but if you want to keep things simple, avoid that inevitable disc noise, or have a classic Ritchey that’s been hanging in the garage since the early 90’s needing a makeover: these are the brakes for you.

Please note that all of our brakes are sold per wheel.

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🥓We’ll be there with our 🔥 Aid Station as usual. Paul himself will feed you pickles and bacon out on course. No, really!
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We’ve been offering a front Flat Mount Adapter f We’ve been offering a front Flat Mount Adapter for a few years, so we figured it was about time to make a matching rear. 
  This adapter is +20mm, so good for putting a 160mm rotor on a 140 frame, and also helpful if you need a little more cable housing clearance at the chainstay. We aren’t usually weight-weenies, but after machining a pocket into these they end up at only 9 grams. 
  As usual, these are CNC’d by us to ultra-high tolerance right here in Chico, California. 
  Have a great weekend!
Canti Lever blades fresh out of the tumbler and re Canti Lever blades fresh out of the tumbler and ready for anodizing. As with all of our bearing press-fit features, we hold +/-0.0002” tolerance on these parts. That’s about 5 microns, and for comparison, the average human hair is about 70 microns thick. So yeah, these tolerances are TIGHT is what we’re saying!
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  We just had a batch screenprinted with a giant red MotoLite brake and threw them on the website…LET’S CUDDLE! 
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Going through a folder of photos by @johnprolly fr Going through a folder of photos by @johnprolly from 2018 and we are having some FEELINGS of EXCITEMENT that @downievilleclassic is BACK!🎉 This event is SO much more than a bike race, it’s a big family party with all your bike friends in some of the most beautiful rugged mountains in the #LostSierra. We’ll be bringing back our on-course aid station and breakfast tent downtown to support, and y’all wouldn’t believe how many pounds of bacon and coffee we go through on a weekend like this, it’s wild. Anyways, registration opened Sunday night and rumor has it the fields are filling up pretty quick, so don’t wait to pull the trigger on this, it is hands down the BEST mountain bike party in the USA!
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