Rene Also look to the straddle cable itself on the Paul in front. Make sure that it's straightened out. Make sure that none of your lever travel is used up simply pulling the arc shape out of the straddle cable. Pauls, in my experience, are shipped with a pretty stiff straddle cable, and you have to make a real effort to give it a little bend at the two edges of the carrier, and you have to give it a little bend with your thumb at the anchor as well. That might result in giving you more slack than you thought you had, will result in the pads being farther from the rims, and will allow you to pull up some slack at the barrel adjuster.
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:26:18 PM UTC-7, René wrote: > > I'll try that, but the pads are already quite close to the rims. On the > flats, they start biting quite early on the travel of the lever. Also, > these levers are designed for cantilever and sidepull brakes, so it's > strange that they wouldn't work. > > The other thing I'm going to try, is to raise the yoke higher on the front > Racer brake to see if it reduces the mechanical advantage and increases the > braking power. There's nothing I can do on the rear, but it's the front one > the one that stops you on a downhill, so I'll start there. > > René > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> You might want to try mounting the pads closer to the rims as they would >> be on a tt/tri-bike, which is primarily what these levers were designed >> for. If you compare the arc of mtb and road levers, there is noticeably >> more air between the lever and bar, giving you more travel before bottoming >> out. I think you're running out of lever before the brakes are done braking. >> >> Joe Baernard >> Vallejo, CA. >> >> On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:56:35 PM UTC-7, René wrote: >> >>> On Sunday I took a nice 20 mile bike ride on the Los Gatos Creek Trail >>> on my Betty. At the end of the outbound leg, there are two steep climbs, >>> one on dirt (avg. 16%) and one on pavement that is longer (avg. 13%). >>> >>> The Betty is equiped with Tektro 4.1 reverse brake levers, a front Paul >>> Racer brake and a rear Silver brake, both with salmon pads. >>> >>> On the way down, I realized I couldn't lock the wheels or come to a >>> complete stop. The bike just kept rolling, even though I was pressing the >>> levers as far as they'd go to the bars. On flats, you need much less >>> pressure to come to a stop. Both front and rear brakes felt the same. >>> Luckily, I wasn't forced to come to a full stop or I would have crashed. >>> >>> What gives? This is the first time this happens to me. Is it something >>> on the setup I'd need to change? >>> >>> Fully perplexed, >>> >>> René >>> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
