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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
David Kerber wrote:
I doubt that has anything to do with it; my Fuji Touring definitely does not have short chainstays or a radical seat tube angle. It's just the neither the brakes nor the levers have a QR on them. It looks like the brakes (Avid Shorty Canti's) were intended for systems which have QR's on the levers, and the levers (Tiagra STI) were intended for systems with QR's on the brakes. I haven't used Avid Shorties, but on every canti brake I have used, I've been able to set them up with enough slack so that I can release the transverse cable from the brake arm. This is how it is supposed to work. If you can't do that, then your pads are very close to the rim, which means the brakes will become firm very early in the lever travel. That makes it difficult to modulate braking, or to get full strength braking if you have small hands. The cure is to lengthen the cable slightly. With road levers, there should be a threaded cable adjuster somewhere in the system, usually at the cable hanger. In a pinch, screwing this in gives enough slack to get the transverse cable out. I have seen bikes with cantis and no barrel adjusters. This is half-assed and comes from braindead people specing bikes who forget that mountain levers have barrel adjusters but road levers don't. If you have such a bike, put some adjusters inline or at the cable hangers. They'll save pain and suffering when setting up the brakes and when adjusting for pad wear. |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:05:06 -0400, David Kerber
wrote: the x-over wire. You might have to deflate the tire though. Now I really feel like an idiot. If I had just deflated the tire, it would have come out just fine. I ended up removing on of the brake arms to get the wheel off. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Hrmph...I thought the whole reason for asking was to avoid having to deflate the tire! I guess I'm glad I didn't reply to zoot and say that. That IS the usual reason for having QR brakes. -- Rick Onanian |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:45:54 -0700, Zoot Katz
wrote: What I meant, is drop the wheel. Move the axle either forward or back, clear of the dropouts or fork ends and then stuff the tire up tight against whatever's stopping it. Then the rim should be above the brake pads so you can get slack in the X-over wire. ....at which point, you can release the wire, and the brakes open, and you don't need to deflate the tire. Cool. -- Rick Onanian |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
On 14 Sep 2003 22:09:46 -0700, salmoneous wrote:
Am I reading this thread correctly? Does somebody really sell a setup that doesn't allow a quick and brainless wheel removal? Somebody probably does, but in this thread, it was not a matched, or even a single-manufacturer system. It was a lever made for a system whose calipers have QR, and brakes made for a system whose levers have QR. -- Rick Onanian |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:26:17 -0400, David Kerber
wrote: adjusted anything but the fit on it yet. I'm just swapping the 700x32c tires for 700x25's to get a little lower rolling resistance for my daily The narrower tires ought to make it easy to do sans QR. -- Rick Onanian |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
David Kerber wrote:
In article , says... On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:01:48 +0000, David Kerber wrote: I doubt that has anything to do with it; my Fuji Touring definitely does not have short chainstays or a radical seat tube angle. It's just the neither the brakes nor the levers have a QR on them. My old center-pulls had Q/R's on the cable hanger. If those are still available it would solve the problem. I'll check into that; thanks for the suggestion. -- Dave Kerber Fight spam: remove the ns_ from the return address before replying! REAL programmers write self-modifying code. Might also check into cable splitters like they have for disconnecting the cable altogether for folding bikes. -- Check out my bike blog! http://diabloscott.blogspot.com -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Where is the quick release on my brakes?
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:26:17 -0400, David Kerber
wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:07:32 -0400, David Kerber wrote: I have a Fuji Touring 2003 model, and need to remove the wheels, but can't figure out how to get enough slack in the brakes to do this. Where is the QR for the brakes? They are Tiagra STI's with Avid Shorty Canti brakes. snip Having just read the entire thread (at least as much as has reached my ISP's news server), it looks like Sheldon is right; adjusting cantis is becoming a lost art. snip If I were setting it up myself, that's what I'd to as well. However, this is a new bike (I picked it up two weeks ago today) and I haven't adjusted anything but the fit on it yet. What I meant was that adjusting cantis is becoming a lost art...even to bike shops. It's shouldn't be a complete surprise your bike came with the cables adjust the way they are. :-( BTW, I should correct my attribution above. While Sheldon responded in the thread I started in May about adjusting cantis, it was actually Mike Shaw who said, "Talk about a lost art! Adjusting cantis is going the way of the dodo." jeverett3ATearthlinkDOTnet http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3 |
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