This made me curious so I went down to take a look at my own orange Ram. It, too, has standard Shimano 600 series brakes F&R and although their pads reach the rims OK, they are all mounted the way down to the very bottoms of the brake arm slots. I'm wondering if this issue has to do with frame size. What size frame do you have? Mine is a 54cm.
One reason I say this is because the rear rack mount braze-on's on my 54 are located in such a position that they do not allow for the rack's mounting arms any shallower an angle than about 15 degrees from horizontal without interferring with the rear brake arm. If you take a look at the Mark's M1 (mini) rack photo on the Riv website you'll notice that the same rack's front arms are completely horizontal and yet still clear the brake arm. And this is clearly a much larger frame, judging from the steepness of the seat stays. I suspect that the frame builders just moved the brake bridge slightly higher on larger frames, the same way they moved the rack braze-on's (even though you'd think that would be a constant across all frame sizes). On Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:19:37 PM UTC-6, mike goldman wrote: > > i have both an orange and blue ram. the rear brake bridge on the orange is > indeed too high but i worked around it using shimano br-r600 47-57 > calipers. first, i use kool stop v brake pads which drop a bit lower than > traditional road cartridge pads/holders. second, i filed the left side > caliper pad slot about 1mm and the right side about .5mm, the reach problem > was worse on the left side of the caliper > > tektro 47-57 dual pivots did reach the rear brake track on the Ramborange > without filing/v pads but shimano dual pivots worked a little better > > the Ramblue does not have these reach issues as mentioned > > mike goldman > > warwick,r.i. > > ____________________________________________________________ > NetZero now offers 4G mobile broadband. Sign up > now.<http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT1> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ZcbVK_l-vscJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
