my wife's schwinn is about a 15 year old beast on which I attempted to adjust the brakes. These are not caliper types as found on road bikes, but the type you see on mountain and hybrid bikes.
Aside from the shoes being about at the end of their useful lives, I find it bamboozling how to get my adjustments to the shoe and its housing to stay put!!
I get it just "so" then tighten the nut down carefully, taking GREAT care not to move anything AS I tighten...looks ok for about 2 seconds, then I give a few squeezes to the brake lever and everything goes kazoooey!
it seems the rig doesn't want to stay at equilibrium, if that's a good word; when lever is relaxed, each shoe mechanism needs to relax, too, such that each shoe goes back to the resting spot it was set to; on this bike, one shoe is WAY close, the other is WAY far away from the rim.
Granted, these aren't exactly top shelf brakes, but perhaps my approach could use improvement?
thanks for any tips!
gd
Aside from the shoes being about at the end of their useful lives, I find it bamboozling how to get my adjustments to the shoe and its housing to stay put!!
I get it just "so" then tighten the nut down carefully, taking GREAT care not to move anything AS I tighten...looks ok for about 2 seconds, then I give a few squeezes to the brake lever and everything goes kazoooey!
it seems the rig doesn't want to stay at equilibrium, if that's a good word; when lever is relaxed, each shoe mechanism needs to relax, too, such that each shoe goes back to the resting spot it was set to; on this bike, one shoe is WAY close, the other is WAY far away from the rim.
Granted, these aren't exactly top shelf brakes, but perhaps my approach could use improvement?
thanks for any tips!
gd