Those brakes have some of the worst brake pads I have ever experienced. They came on my Quickbeam. I immediately replaced them w/ Koolstop blacks (Sunny SoCal!) and the performance was doubled if not tripled. A little bit of squeak no matter what I do, so I think it's just the inherent flex in the cheapie brakes.
If I had the $$$ floating around, I'd replace them w/ some Pauls, but I can live with the small amount of squeak. DE On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:51 PM, newenglandbike <matthiasbe...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I have shimano cantis as well, and another thing to consider is the > pads. If you can't eliminate barking with toe-in or other > adjustments, you might want to experiment with different pads. I > found some tektro pads that are absolutely bark-free and grip really > well. > > On Oct 11, 3:03 pm, Jeremy Till <jeremy.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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, > > > -svI > > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, scientist guy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
