Bicycle Mechanics - how do I adjust the toe-in on Tektro brakes?

My front brakes have started to squeel like a banshee and I need to fix that. There appears to be no toe-in (or at least very little) at this time.

I think they are dual pivot caliper brakes but I am not completely sure. They came on my Mercier AQUILA AL Road bike.

I don't want to damage anything so if someone can point me in the right direction to adjust these correctly I would appreciate it.

The first thing that I would do would be to dress up the pads with a fingernail emery board. If that doesn't work, I'd carefully clean the rim brakeing surface with something like lacquer thinner. My bet is that the above will cure your problem.

If you want to try toeing in your brake pads, clamp a 6" crecent wrench on each brake arm and "adjust" the toe-in.

The first thing that I would do would be to dress up the pads with a fingernail emery board. If that doesn't work, I'd carefully clean the rim brakeing surface with something like lacquer thinner. My bet is that the above will cure your problem.

If you want to try toeing in your brake pads, clamp a 6" crecent wrench on each brake arm and "adjust" the toe-in.


ok thanks for the tips I will try that first

I have caliper Weinmann brakes on my Dawes road bike. I am about to replace all 4 of the brakes. How do I go about adjusting the toe-in ? Do I file down the rubber with a file before putting them on ?

The idea behind dressing up the brake pads with a nail file is to break up the glaze on the rubber.

To toe in Weinmann calipers, snug up a 6" crescent wrench on each arm and gently bend it so that the front of the pad hits just before the rear.