Minor update. This morning I took a little time and got the toe in down to something approaching the amount I typically find works well on other brakes I have set up. Rode up hill and down dale after that. The raid worked just fine. Lever travel is about what I like. No squealing (except one or two modest very low speed chirps). Braking power seemed fine to me. Controlled speed and stopped the bike just fine. One caveat, I don't think I am a particularly demanding brake user. I've got no complaints about how the CR720s and R559s I have used perform. I gather some find those under powered and can't stand em, so as usual YMMV.
On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 7:53:45 AM UTC-8, A. L Young wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:19 PM, ted <ted....@comcast.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> It's a bit lost in the mists of time, but I think I bought the aero >> levers to replace older non aero levers, and that they seemed the same >> (except for being "aero"). Do you know when levers started having more >> mechanical advantage? Was that a Mafac versus others differentiator? > > > My understanding is that the more modern aero levers have more mechanical > advantage than the older non-aero style due to the position of the pivot in > the handle and direction of cable pull. I've used both types and when set > up correctly had no complaints about braking, so maybe the > mechanical-advantage advantage isn't the biggest issue. > > Aaron Young > The Dalles, OR > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
