Weird Breaking Sound - New Bike
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Weird Sound When Applying Brakes - New Bike
So I got a Virtue Seven yesterday and when I got it home to ride, the back brakes made a really awful noise, sort of like a screeching sound. Also when I brake, the brake pads seem to leave a faint black mark on the rim, but it can easily be wiped away. If I'm moving the bike backwards and apply the rear brakes, it brakes smoothly and makes no sound, but if it's moving forward it makes the sound. I looked this up already but none of the solutions seem to apply to my type of brakes.
The bike comes with linear-pull brakes which don't allow me to fix the "toe in" at all. What could be causing this problem and how can I fix it?
The bike comes with linear-pull brakes which don't allow me to fix the "toe in" at all. What could be causing this problem and how can I fix it?
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My guess would be brake shoe toe-in, as well.
Have you loosened the shoe bolt to see if you can adjust the toe-in?
Have you loosened the shoe bolt to see if you can adjust the toe-in?
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Problems like this are a reason to give a new bike a thorough test ride and close checking over BEFORE you accept delivery; the dealer is a lot more motivated to correct these problems before you sign on the line and hand over the bux.
I would take it back to the dealer and have them make it right if you cannot, as suggested by the above comments, adjust the toe-in to make it stop. If the toe-in cannot be adjusted with the supplied pads they might be able to substitute a different type of pads which either don't squeal or can be adjusted not to. Also, they are not expensive brakes ($10.99 MSRP) so cannot be expected to give the kind of performance that more costly and presumably more rigid brakes might. Finding this problem before accepting delivery may have put you into a better position to negotiate a discount on replacing the installed pads or brakes with better ones.
I would take it back to the dealer and have them make it right if you cannot, as suggested by the above comments, adjust the toe-in to make it stop. If the toe-in cannot be adjusted with the supplied pads they might be able to substitute a different type of pads which either don't squeal or can be adjusted not to. Also, they are not expensive brakes ($10.99 MSRP) so cannot be expected to give the kind of performance that more costly and presumably more rigid brakes might. Finding this problem before accepting delivery may have put you into a better position to negotiate a discount on replacing the installed pads or brakes with better ones.
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If your brake pads make contact on the back of the pad before the front of the pad, the air gets compressed in there & tries to fight the contact. Causes that dreadful sound. Usually just takes loosening the bolt, with the brakes applied, & retightening so that they make even contact.
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If your brake pads make contact on the back of the pad before the front of the pad, the air gets compressed in there & tries to fight the contact. Causes that dreadful sound. Usually just takes loosening the bolt, with the brakes applied, & retightening so that they make even contact.
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