Originally Posted by
miamijim
BG, thanks, you nailed it dead on! Sure enough, all you have to do is lossen the fixing bolt and the entire caliper can moves up and down. I've already moved the caliper up and repositioned the pads. They can easily clear 25's in the highest position, but there's no way 25's willl clear the pads for wheel removal.
My Deltas stop real well. With proper cables and pad alignemt I see no reason why they wouldnt.
Delta's actually work very well with slightly wider tires, even to remove the wheel. You do need the correct levers however that have a sliding rod Q/R mechanism. Delta brakes also tend to work better with slightly wider rims and not the very narrow ones. I set my brakes up in such a way that the levers get as close to touching the handlebars as possible without actually touching when bottomed out. You can then get good leverage with two fingers.