Had never seen those! Now they make sense.
The project evolved a lot since, and even if I’m not riding the Schlumpf much, I still worked on giving it better brakes, thanks to @lobbybopster :
Thanks for the link DrD, Sheldon is like the messiah when it comes to wheels!
Here are some photos of the final build. No caliper as I mainly wanted to measure the position of the disc with regards to the frame. 4mm. Same distance I measured on my other unis with in-board disc!
Mad4One has caliper tabs on both sides of their frames, I wonder if I can fit a 32" wheel in a 29+ frame…
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It happened! Finally!
Took ages because I was not crazy about using a Magura Louise or Clara since those are essentially bending the disc towards the non-piston side of the caliper. I sourced a Magura Gustav brake on eBay - those are still popular among downhill MTB riders and are surprisingly expensive for a 10 years piece of kit. The Gustav is also a caliper with a non-piston side like its contemporary friends but it has two pistons on the other side. And the whole caliper is mounted on what…