I had side pulls when I got my first Rivendell; it was built at RBW headquarters. I was never that thrilled with them and when I built up my Cheviot a couple a months ago I splurged for Paul Racers (centerpulls). They are incredible and I probably wouldn't use any other brake again!
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 10:27:02 AM UTC-8, Doug Williams wrote: > > I ordered a 58cm 650b Homer Hilsen on December 30th to take advantage of > the coupon. So now I am just biding my time waiting for the frame and > selecting components. Actually, most of the selection is done and I ordered > virtually all the parts…but I could always still tweak things. For one > thing, I haven’t yet ordered the wheelset. > > Anyway, I test rode several bikes before I settled on the 650b Homer with > albatross bars. Very nice! The one thing that could use a little > improvement on the bikes that I test rode is the Tektro R559 brakes. Don’t > get me wrong...nothing is really wrong with them and they were certainly > adequate. But I thought they were just a little slow in stopping the bike. > Perhaps I’m spoiled by the disk brakes on my other bike but I have no > desire for disk brakes on a road bike or country bike. > > I have no doubt that RBW will setup and adjust the brakes for optimal > performance. But I was wondering what other tweaks I could use to improve > the R559 performance. Careful rim selection comes to mind, and I plan to > discuss that with Rich. What about compressionless brake housing? Or what > about Kool Stop or Yokozuna Brake Pads? Would either of these make any real > difference or would I just be (pardon the pun) spinning my wheels? > > > > Doug Williams > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
