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03-28-13, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by HillRider

What model and type of brake do you have? If it is the newer double pivot type, it can be centered by hand after the bolt is tight.

New double pivots -- they're 2012 Shimano 105s. The bike I grew up with (and the only one I've done much of my own work on) has cantis, so I've never worked with calipers before. How would I center it when the bolt is tight? Or is it supposed to be able to move and I didn't need to do anything to begin with? I assumed it should be tight to the frame and immobile.

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Originally Posted by billDennen

also consider tightening with the brakes fully engaged by cinching the handlebar levers closed ...

Yeah, that's what I meant by rubber-banding the brake lever -- I need two hands to tighten the bolt, because my hand-eye coordination sucks, but I could put something on it to hold it shut.

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