Yeah, it seems like whether or not canti's squeal seems less to do with the particular brand/model of brake than the peculiarities of the set-up- all the stuff jim said, as well as the flexiness of the fork, how worn your cables are, distance from housing stop to straddle wire, phase of the moon, etc, etc. Putting a brake booster* on my SUPER flexly after-market fork went a long ways towards minimizing squeal on one of my bikes. So i'd play around with them a while before springing for a new set. Also know that as canti brake pads wear, the angle at which they contact the rim constantly changes, so while you may have had them perfectly dialed in a one point they may no longer be- this is just a function of canti geometry and is the price we pay for fat tires and arguably stronger brakes. Read Jobst on the subject for more.
*e.g., http://paulcomp.com/brakebooster.html. That's just an example though, there are much cheaper/less clunky looking ones available too. On Oct 11, 10:50 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a set of the shiman br550's on my bike right now and I'm not > terribly pleased with them. They've been fairly persnickety to setup > and there's lots of annoying brake squeal from the front one. I'm > curious if maybe I should consider getting a set of the paul touring > cantis, the tektros or the ird's? Any comments one way or the other? > I'm a little curious how easy any of these are to setup and get > 'right' since my experience with the shimano's is not great. > > I also have an old set of mafac tandem cantis that I took off an old > gitane frame. I guess I could pop those on. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > -sv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
