Thanks! He didn't exactly say not to go with the cliffhangers just said "hey those rims are NMSW, are you ok with that?" which gave me pause. So I thought about it and all of my rim brake wheels have had machined side walls. Maybe a BMX bike or two when I was young were NMSW but I can't remember. Figured I'd ask before ordering wheels and regretting it.
On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 6:44:21 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > That is very odd. Aren't machined brake tracks relative recent (I mean, > starting from the 1990s, or perhaps 1980s? People managed to stop just fine > before that. And I've been using a stash of Sun M14As and ME14As for almost > 30 years and those don't have machined braking tracks; salmon pads stop > just fine on my single pivot calipers. > > All the old road bike rim classics: MA2s, Open Pros, etc,? Hell, even > chromed steel rims work fine with cheap rubber brake pads in dry conditions. > > I think he's trying to sell you a new pair of rims. > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 4:19 PM Josh C <getjosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Looking for your take on non-machined side wall wheels with rim brakes. >> Poor stopping power? >> >> I don't have experience with NMSW and rim brakes but just reached out to >> a wheel builder about building a set of polished cliffhanger wheels and >> they cautioned me regarding the NMSW. Figured I'd see what experience you >> all have with 'em. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/701b2798-b758-4204-9b1e-3852e9024347n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/701b2798-b758-4204-9b1e-3852e9024347n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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/18c1cad3-a978-499c-a959-b17385a3600an%40googlegroups.com.
