Excellent information. I always grind them myself, but IIRC I simply took the brakes on the Herse as they were, and, also IIRC, all adjustment were to straddle and none to housing. I'll have to add the squeezed brake (with toe strap) to the process. Thanks.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:34 PM, 'Mojo' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be? "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood -- 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.
