Lots of ideas here, and they're all right...sometimes. Paul cantis can squeal with the best of 'em. Cheap Shimano Altus cantis can work great with no squealing. So much of it depends on seemingly trivial details, and what works on one bike may not work on another. At a shop I worked at some years ago, we tried numerous adjustments, and every brake and pad we could find (even tried the pads backwards), on an otherwise really nice IF cross bike. Frustrated, we even tried a different rim/ wheel, and no luck. It was so bad as to be almost unrideable (when the ft brake was applied). We ultimately concluded that there was something about the fork that caused the squealing. As far as I know, that bike has a squeaky brake still today...
But one generality that I can offer, which seems to be contrary to popular opinion, is that Kool Stop Salmon pads are NOT the answer to squealing, in general. I actually quit carrying the Kool Stop pads because I thought their fabled superior stopping power was mostly hype (at least here in the mostly flat, usually dry part of the country), and the finickiness with squealing was a common problem. Now we use budget Tektro pads that we can buy in bulk (no individual packaging to waste), which are, IME, as good as any, and seem to be fine on most brakes on most bikes. On Oct 11, 12:50 pm, Seth Vidal <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a set of the shiman br550's on my bike right now and I'm not > terribly pleased with them. They've been fairly persnickety to setup > and there's lots of annoying brake squeal from the front one. I'm > curious if maybe I should consider getting a set of the paul touring > cantis, the tektros or the ird's? Any comments one way or the other? > I'm a little curious how easy any of these are to setup and get > 'right' since my experience with the shimano's is not great. > > I also have an old set of mafac tandem cantis that I took off an old > gitane frame. I guess I could pop those on. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > -sv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
