Setting up cantis the Bontrager way
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mrkawasaki
Retrobike Rider
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Sheesh - I think I've a migraine coming on... Shame the all important picture for us visual learners doesn't come up... :roll:
Mr K
Sheesh - I think I've a migraine coming on... Shame the all important picture for us visual learners doesn't come up... :roll:
Mr K
Ok, not all the pictures download but here is a summary from Keith Bontrager:
"The set up basics for any cantilever brake system:
* Spread the arms at the top. Extend the pads out of the arms to do this. It seems weird, but it's important. Don't get carried away and extend them out so far that they are not held properly. Make sure they are held very tight when you are done with toe in adjustments.
* Bring the straddle carrier down as low as you can. If you don't know how close you can get to the tire, adjust the lowest point of the straddle carrier even with the underside of the fork brace. This is a clearance you use all the time and is a good landmark to shoot for.
* Adjust the pads first, then the carrier, them pull the straddle cable across and make the final cable adjustments."
Reading the article is good though for a general defence of cantis and interesting points re. v brakes.
In the Hit the North mud my cantis rocked AND rolled, leading to swift and smooth descending as the brakes were unable to slow the 17 year old toothless Megabites - actually I wonder why there were only two canti equipped bikes there?
"The set up basics for any cantilever brake system:
* Spread the arms at the top. Extend the pads out of the arms to do this. It seems weird, but it's important. Don't get carried away and extend them out so far that they are not held properly. Make sure they are held very tight when you are done with toe in adjustments.
* Bring the straddle carrier down as low as you can. If you don't know how close you can get to the tire, adjust the lowest point of the straddle carrier even with the underside of the fork brace. This is a clearance you use all the time and is a good landmark to shoot for.
* Adjust the pads first, then the carrier, them pull the straddle cable across and make the final cable adjustments."
Reading the article is good though for a general defence of cantis and interesting points re. v brakes.
In the Hit the North mud my cantis rocked AND rolled, leading to swift and smooth descending as the brakes were unable to slow the 17 year old toothless Megabites - actually I wonder why there were only two canti equipped bikes there?
