Oh lucky me! I get a visit/ response from Jan Heine's personal lap dog! It is real simple Francis, I did not like them that much and found them more difficult to set up than the Tektro's. Your experience is that, yours. Mine was different. Now please go "plane" somewhere else. You add so little to this list (other than general negativity) I often wonder why you are here at all?(Rhetorical question, please don't respond.)
On Monday, August 5, 2013 7:30:35 AM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > It's news to me that center pull (or, for that matter, cantilever) > brakes have a "complicated" cable routing that interferes with handlebar > bags. I have had four bikes with such brakes, two with center pull (one > bolt-on Mafac Raid, the other brazed-on Paul Racers) and two with > cantilevers (wide profile old-time Shimano Deore XT) that I've used the > largest size Berthoud bags with, entirely without problems due to cable > routing. > > The last time I had the bike with brazed-on Paul Racers serviced, I had > the pads changed and in the process the LBS managed to totally ruin the > feel of the brakes: spongy beyond belief. I brought the bike back, and a > more experienced mechanic was able to restore the original feel (without > excess squeal, by the way) in a matter of a few minutes. I'm not sure I'd > call that "fussy" on the part of the brakes; it's possible to misadjust > most things if you are incompetent. > > On 08/04/2013 11:09 PM, ted wrote: > > Thanks for the info. I hadn't heard the paul racers were fussy that way. > Well I knew how the cable routing differed, but the other stuff, not so > much. > > On Sunday, August 4, 2013 7:57:18 PM UTC-7, Brian Campbell wrote: >> >> The Pauls while stiffer, were more of a pain to get set up correctly. I >> seemed to be forever between spongy feel and squealing like mad. I did have >> them working well and then I swapped the wheelset to the current one w/ >> different rim widths and profiles and had to re-adjust again. Frankly, I am >> lazy when it comes to this kind of thing. Also, the Pauls required more >> "complicated" cable routing and it got in the way of the handlebar bag. I >> toyed with the idea of getting them brazed on but just figuerd it would be >> better to go ride the bike rather than turn it into a shrine. > > > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
