The Silver/Tiagra lever combo has been working well. It's hard to diagnose the problem online, of course, but there's nothing inherent 'bout the 'bo that ought to make anything funky. There are differences in feel & flex among brakes, but the differences are by faaaaaaarrrr most noticeable when your attention is concentrated on the brake--- when you're not actually riding the bike using it, but when your feet are on the floor and you're squeezing levers harder then you ever do during a ride, and looking for flex-action.
This is a common, and understandably reasonable-seeming way to compare or test brakes, but it tends to distort differences. Centerpulls that feel good during use often "fail" the SBVT (static bike visual test). But the Silvers generally pass the SBVT with fairly flying colors. If the cable housing and cables are good, and the spring is good (it is), and it's lubed where it hooks onto the inside of the brake arm where you can't see it unless you look there, and if there aren't any kinks, then the action should be plenty OK. Lube the spring where it hooks onto the arm. The hard way isn't too hard, but involves unhooking it, applying grease or lanolin, and rehooking it. The easy way is spraying with W4D, as my granny used to call it, and it came up in an extraordinary number of conversations, considering she was in her '80s and '90s when it did. Lube the spring. And while you're at it, spray the spring with Boeshield to keep the rust at bay. If the Boeshield drips down into the W4D area in that groove, no harm done. G -- 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-bu...@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.
