I experimented with a Raid front brake on my AHH, and experienced fairly persistent squeal. Jan writes that the Compass brakes stop squealing after a few rainy rides, but living in the SF area (ie rains almost never) I wasn't much comforted by that. My impression is that both cantilevers and Raid/Compass brakes are quite sensitive to the orientation of the pads on the rim. Also that said orientation depends on how the brake is sitting on the post. To get things right I unhook the springs, pinch the brakes to the rim and put some forward rotation torque on the wheel. I get the pads square and tangent to the rim in that situation. Of course getting the toe in just right was a bit hit and miss. My approach involved taking a crescent wrench to the arm right below the pad holder. That sort of worked but I never got it just right. I was able to get it to work quietly for a bit but after a while the squeal would return. I eventually got a set of adjustable toe shoes from VO with which I have not had trouble with squealing. I wore out the pads that came with the shoes and replaced them with Yokozuna pads from RBW. Still no noise. I suspect that the thinner modern pads are less prone to squealing than the much thicker, and of course longer wearing, pads that Compass sells. Could be completely wrong about that though. As Bill suggested its probably worth contacting Jan for advice. Hope you can get yours sorted out. Must be very frustrating.
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 4:27:47 PM UTC-7, Tim wrote: > > Not to hijack the thread but...I just got my custom MAP with Compass > centerpulls and I have a question. Will the front break stop squealing like > a banshee after they break in a bit?!?!? I'm using them with HED Belgium > 650b rims (brand new). I've only been riding it about a week. Probably > around 100 miles. With light pressure there is no noise but with moderate > to hard pressure they squeal so loud that they turn heads. It's been like > that from the get go. It really kind of sucks. Any ideas? -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
