Originally Posted by BobG

I used to have V brakes with travel agents but found the following maintenence to be a PITA:

See the cable in Doug's photo where it exits the Travel Agent at about the 1:00 position? When you squeeze the lever it should not rotate past the 5:00 position for the brake to operate properly. As your pads wear down that cable hole very quickly will pass the 5:00 position. Sometimes pulling cable slack through is not enough to adjust it and you'll have to remove and re-thread it through the Travel Agent. That is usually a trial and error procedure to achieve the right adjustment.

The 1:00 starting position also had an annoying habit of rotating out of location (cable stretch?).

I'm back to cantis. Just a cheap set of Avid Shortys with Kool Stop pads work fine .

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