James, if the picture you attached is the actual bike you're looking at, those are the nice ones. You should have no issues with those brakes. They work great, they take normal brake shoes, and there are plenty enough of them for spare parts (although they're pretty well built). Good luck!
Greg On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 9:54:22 AM UTC-8 iamkeith wrote: > Those can be great brakes. You're fortunate that the posts are located on > the seat stays. Most often they are on the bottom of the chainstays and are > difficult to work on just because of lack of space. There are two slightly > different versions of those sun tour brakes, with one generally being > considered superior. I don't know enough to identify which yours is but > there's info out there. There are also U-brakes that look like giant > frame-mount center-pull caliper brakes, which use the same mounting > standard, but I don't know that they're an improvement at all. They're > bulky and have limited clearance. There are also super sought-after roller > cams made by WTB/Charlie Cunningham/DKG machine, but they'd be a couple > thousand dollars each IF you could even find them. The sun tours are a > licensed version of those, and are pretty neat for a runabout hobby bike. > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:39:26 AM UTC-7 James wrote: > >> This isn't a Rivendell related question, and for that I apologize, but >> ya'll are the most bike-savvy people I "know". I see a lot of value in a >> cheap, knock-around, lock-up-anywhere bike, so I have my eyes on a local >> Schwinn High Sierra. It has roller-cam brakes and I have know experience >> with those. What is yawls experience with roller-cam breaks and due to the >> placement of the mounts on the frame, what other brakes may be compatible? >> The mounts seem higher on the frame than cantilever mounts. Would center >> or side-pull brakes work? What other options do I have? Thank you >> >> Picture: https://imgur.com/0IqjRl1 >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f1365a96-d673-46d0-a18e-47978be37106n%40googlegroups.com.
