Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site think.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!think!security From: security@think.ARPA (Security Guard) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Cure for Squeaky Brakes Message-ID: <2830@think.ARPA> Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 13:26:39 EDT Article-I.D.: think.2830 Posted: Sun Sep 22 13:26:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Sep-85 02:46:37 EDT References: <285@ncr-sd.UUCP> <38200052@uiucdcs> Reply-To: security@think.UUCP Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26 Summary: more cures I've found many solutions to the problem of squeaky brakes: 1. Apply your brakes at steady preasure as you ride and just in effect ride the skeak out. This, as one can imagine, is also great exercise but can be done without great strain on a steady downgrade slope. (It works!) 2. Clean your rims with an abraisive and steel wool. This is particularly helpful with sew-up rims as glue from the tubular gets on the braking area. 3. Remove the top millimeter layer of your brake shoes wich in effect will thoughroughly clean them and the new surface will be rough and not skeak or at least not as much.! 4. sculpt your brake shoes as to be convex. These are just a few more ways that might work depending on the problem. Bicycle repair is virtually truobleshooting. Two solutions might remedy the problem but one is always better. Most repairs are generally easy for those who possess the capability to think with commem sense. ********************************************************************** Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com