One last thing to check Patrick: when you cut the cable housing, did you grind the cable ends flat? If there is a burr there it will compress before the pads can fully engage giving a squishy feel. Also as someone noted here, loose housing will flex. I tie the brake firmly engaged with a toe strap around the lever. Then I tape the housing to the bar in this flexed, engaged mode. This keeps the housing from flexing, and it can flex even under handlebar tape.. If your pads are oriented correctly these two steps, housing end grinding, and flexed housing taped to the bars before wrapping, will take ALL the squishy feel out of a brake.
On Saturday, May 17, 2014 4:45:40 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > Compared with the brakes on my Hunqapillar, the Quickbeam’s brakes feel > squishy. They could use some tightening, but not by much (and are worn > about half way). Possible causes I could think of: > > — New pads (these are the stock Tektro pads), I’d put on the kwikstops > (qwikstops?). > — The QB has aero-levers vs. the Hunqapillar’s non-aero-levers. Could that > contribute to squish? > > Other ideas? I prefer to start simple first, of course. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* > *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* > > -- 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/d/optout.
