Originally Posted by
MEversbergII
Pax Velo has a shop? Or are you talking about Mike's?
Good to see another person from (or around) the area!
These are V-brakes. I swapped on a spare rear wheel (which has made me realize just how bad I let the bearings get on my other one...this is my workhorse bike...) and it also flexes. Thinking maybe I borked up something putting it in the dropouts. Rode in fine, though, so I'll check when I get home. While redoing the brakes I also discovered it's time to regrease the bearing nubs.
Busy bike weekend ahead...good.
M.
EDIT: While we're on the subject of centering screws, how do I 'reset' those v-brake centering screws that are on each pivot? They've managed to find themselves in interesting positions.
I'd try backing off the screw on the side with the widest gap between pad & rim.
EDIT: reverse the above to the narrowest gap.
A LITTLE tweek goes a long way.
When doing little adjustments like this (such as RDER's) I like to adjust a bit, ride the bike and "exercise" the "system" I'm tuning a few times and then recheck.
IOW, tweek a bit and then go and actually use the brakes a few times hard.