Originally Posted by
noglider
Did you toe them in? We recently had a thread on alleviating the squeal of cantilever brakes.
I googled "avid shorty 4" and found lots of good reviews. I haven't worked with them, though.
I toed them in, changed pads (several times), greased the canti stud and moved the cable stop to the fork. I upgraded to IRD CAFAMS and all the problems went away and I had much better braking performance. This was on my Poprad, on my Cannondale CX9 I went for the tektro 720's and they were perfect out of the gate, even with a full carbon steerer (Easton ec90X).
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