Rod brake pads
07-09-04 | 09:46 AM
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Rod brake pads
Can somebody please tel me if anybody is manufacturing decent pads for rod-brakes, for use with the V-shaped rims on old roadsters. Fibrax have stopped making them and our local dealer says he can only get cheap Indian makes now, which you can break with your fingers.
07-10-04 | 02:20 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
Unless the Chinese are getting too affluent, I believe they still ride Flying Pigeon bikes with rod brakes. Perhaps they export some decent pads.
Riding a bike with rod brakes takes more courage than I have.
Riding a bike with rod brakes takes more courage than I have.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
07-11-04 | 01:59 AM
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JohnE is correct. China still has them. I bought a handfull last time I was there, but sold them to another rod-brake enthusiast who needed them. The Chinese brakes aren't too bad. The brake pads themselves are of some kind of laminant. Heck they might be made from cut-up old tires. Anyway, they work.
If you have any friends in China or who are going to China, they can easily get you rod-brake pads at any bike shop.
If you have any friends in China or who are going to China, they can easily get you rod-brake pads at any bike shop.
