"Persnickety to setup" certainly matched my experience w those brakes. What levers are you using? I found them almost impossible with Ultegra SIS. I had to set them very, very close to the rim to escape bottoming out the levers, then there wasn't enough room left to open the straddle cable. Any little thing bumped them out of this tight alignment. Salmon pads and lots of toe in helped with the screeching and improved the stopping. Then I swapped out the Shimano levers for Cane Creek, which made setup a lot easier because of the added QR. Ultimately I bought a pair of Paul's Neo Retros and felt like I had gone to canti brake heaven. Cane Creek levers, Paul's calipers, silver bar end shifters make me a happy rider. I don't think I'll ever change. I know Paul's are expensive but they are a lifetime item. Michael
On Oct 11, 1:50 pm, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
