Jumping off of Bill Lindsay's RoadeoRosa thread, where he commented on the varsity level work required to de-squeak his Rene Herse brakes....
I love Jan and his stuff, but I think keeping the smooth post brake pads for his brakes is being a slave to the past. I've never liked any of the brakes I've had that used them. Hard to set up, impossible to adjust after tightening (any aluminum bits immediately deform, preventing further adjustment), limited replacement options. I just replaced the pads on the Shimano CX-50 cantilever brakes on East Coast Sam. I wanted cartridge holders for easy pad swapping, prompted by a white-knuckle descent of Connor Pass in Ireland on a very wet day. I put on 105 holders with Kool Stop dual-compound pads, which I've loved on the Silver/Tektro long-reach side pulls I've had on various bikes. Setting them up took all of about 5 seconds on each side, and zero squeal out the gate. (Release the springs, do an initial install and slight tighten, then put a credit card between the trailing edge and the rim, squeeze the brake lever, loosen and re-tighten the pad, done. Don't forget to put the springs back on.) All of which made me dream up an adapter that would allow for mounting a bolt-on pad on a brake that uses smooth post pads. I'm envisioning a bolt on one end, to attach to the brake arm, and a flat tab on the other, with a hole for the pad mounting bolt to pass through. The tab probably wants to be offset from the center axis of the bolt, to put the inner face closer to the inside edge of the brake arm. A bit of Googling came up with zilch. Anybody handy with machining stainless steel rod stock? Ted Durant Milwaukee WI USA -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ca69ba73-753f-452b-a076-356c2cb7a36bn%40googlegroups.com.
