I have those brakes and they are awesome but it is hard to release the straddle cable. Most cantis you can easily unhook the cable end from the brake arm. On CX70's it's hard to get the end to release from the canti arm. I have to push on the cable end through the hole in the front of the arm to get it to release. I use a key or an allen or whatever's handy with a small point. After that they open plenty far to clear 700x60 tires on my Hunq.
On Friday, December 19, 2014 6:33:17 PM UTC-8, drew beckmeyer wrote: > > ok, i feel like this is going to end with me missing something obvious. i > just got the cx-70 brakes to avoid having to deflate/squeeze my 700x50 > tires everytime i want to take the wheels off. im not so new to cantilever > brakes but somewhat new to big tires that prevent easy on and off. > > riv's site sort of implies that they open up easy enough and this video > shows a guy doing it.... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA7f-v3Rmts (skip to 1:04) > here is the description and pics of it opened up > http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/brc3.htm > > in my reality, when set up and adjusted correctly, it doesnt seem possible > to slip the hanger cable from the brake. there isnt enough slack to get the > cable to slide out of that little slot, it seems. if the brakes are super > wide, i can get it to go, but it has to be uncomfortably far from the rim. > adjusting the inline barrel to it's slackest doesnt really work either. > > so... am i missing something, and if so, what? id like to avoid deflating > or loosening the other side of the cable hanger and then readjusting the > brakes all over again. i couldve done that with the old brakes. > > many thanks > -- 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.
