mini motos are short pull so road levers On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 10:21:44 AM UTC-5, dstein wrote: > > Maybe squishy isn't the right adjective then? My concern is I have to pull > the road levers almost all the way then and even then I feel I am not > getting near the stopping power I should be compared to my other bikes (mix > of canti's and calipers and discs). > > Also on the minimotos for anyone that knows, should those be run with road > brake levers? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 4, 2016, at 7:04 AM, Bill Lindsay <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > dstein asked: > > "I'm also wondering if the 650b setup is a good idea for brake placement. > I can position the pads at the highest setting to reach the 650b rims, but > is more at the bottom of the rim rather than the middle or top of the rim > like when it was a 26" rim. Does that play into how it brakes?" > > For any cantilever brake of this kind, pads at the top of the slots is the > position of LEAST mechanical advantage. This goes completely counter to > your main complaint, though. Your primary complaint is the brakes are > squishy. Squishy feeling brakes is the most common symptom of HIGH > mechanical advantage. With the pads at the top of the slots, your brakes > should feel solid, but should feel like you don't have much power. This is > what confuses me about the whole thing. It doesn't add up, and leads me to > suspect there is something else going on. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/oSXNjxvxYhM/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >
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