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From: kreek@rocky2.UUCP (Mary Jeanne Kreek)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Squeaky Brakes Remedy
Message-ID: <126@rocky2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 22:55:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocky2.126
Posted: Sat Sep 21 22:55:43 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 06:57:51 EDT
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Keywords: Pliers

The reason toeing in your shoes works is not because you use the
front of your shoe more than the rear.  It is because the force of
the rim that applying your brakes resists normally twists the
caliper arms.  When this happens, the rear of the shoe curls towards
the front.  Then is springs back.  All of this happens very fast,
which is why it comes out as a squeak.  Now that your shoes are toed
in, your shoes actually are rather flush with the rim, depending on
how fast you are going and how much you and your bike weigh.  You
will find that you won't wear the fronts of the shoes much more than
the rears unless you make many heavy stops with a lot of weight on
your bike.

Tom Reingold
36 Ellwood St
New York, NY 10040
(212) 304-2504


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