It Goes And It Stops

Saturday, September 10, 2011, is the date of the second-to-last build session for my new old bike.  This session was concerned with braking.  I installed new brake pad inserts, adjusted the shoes for proper rim alignment, and installed both brake cables.  The front derailur cable that you might see in the pictures below (and in the previous post) is only temporarily connected, so I do not count it as being installed yet.

There seems to be no industry standard for brake post placement.  Every time I have had to replace a fork I have had to readjust the brake shoes for proper rim alignment.  The same is true when moving brakes from one frame to another, and when replacing wheels with new wheels of a different make.  I suppose, on the one hand, that it is not that big a deal these days, what with the proliferation of disk brakes, but there are still people out there using rim brakes, and at least one of us wants some kind of standard.  Enough said.  On to the building.

The brake shoes and cables:

 The brake shoes are Avid Rim Wrangler shoe inserts.  One thing I really like about V-type brakes is the option for shoes with replaceable pads.  Adjusting brakes shoes is not my favorite thing to do, and this design feature allows me to replace pads without having to adjust anything.

The cables are Jagwire Hyper brake cables.  These are coated cables with lined housing and nifty gold-colored cable end-caps. I was planning to transfer the cabling from my donor bike to the new bike, but there was trouble with housing lengths, cable lengths, and a severe shortage of cable/housing cutters.  Along with new brake cables I bought a new Park cable/housing cutter.




That's it for this build session.

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