This made me curious so I went down to take a look at my own orange Ram.
It, too, has standard Shimano 600 series brakes FR and although their
pads reach the rims OK, they are all mounted the way down to the very
bottoms of the brake arm slots. I'm wondering if this issue has to do with
george,
might you have old school shimano 600 single pivot brakes? i have dual pivot
shimano 47-57. i would also guess the single pivots might be a bit
longerbeen a while since i used them
mike goldman
warwick,r.i.
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Nope. These are Shimano BR-R600 dual pivot standards with 47/57 min/max
reach, just like yours.
On Sunday, December 23, 2012 6:39:45 PM UTC-6, mike goldman wrote:
george,
might you have old school shimano 600 single pivot brakes? i have dual
pivot shimano 47-57. i would also guess the
george,
both my Rams are 58cm.
mike
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I have an orange 54cm Rambly too, and it does suffer from the high
brake mount problem in back. I think it might've been just one batch
of orange frames that had this issue...
...the new big mouth/Silver brakes by Tektro have a bit more reach
then the original Shimanos, and work without
Well, the only real way to solve this mystery would be to remove the rear
wheel (and fender, if installed) and, using an old axle, take the
measurement from the center of the rear dropout to the brake mounting hole
on seat stay bridge to see if there are significant differences. If I
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 16:11 -0800, George Schick wrote:
This made me curious so I went down to take a look at my own orange
Ram. It, too, has standard Shimano 600 series brakes FR and although
their pads reach the rims OK, they are all mounted the way down to the
very bottoms of the brake arm
I had a 60cm Orange one in the olden days. Can't remember which brakes were
on it, but I do remember even when the pads were mounted at the bottom of
the caliper, the pad would just be barely off the rim and onto the tire.
Think my remedy was to sand off / round off the top lengthwise corner of
