Front caliper brake adjust?
08-25-08 | 02:56 AM
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Front caliper brake adjust?
I have a 08 bianchi pista and I'm about to put front brakes on them. I'll be using Paul E-Lever with a Shimano 105 caliper brake. I've never had a fixed gear bike with brakes on them so my question is, how tight do you guys have your brakes? as in whats the tension? if it still doesn't make sense, I would like to know if most of you with brakes ever press on the lever too hard and flip. sounds stupid but Im just clueless with fixed gear bikes with brakes. someone please help out with my Q. thanks guys. give some slack for a NOOB 
08-25-08 | 04:42 AM
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
08-25-08 | 07:38 AM
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This might be good for you to read:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html
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https://bicycletutor.com/sidepull-caliper-brakes/
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html
And this is good to watch:
https://bicycletutor.com/sidepull-caliper-brakes/
08-25-08 | 02:33 PM
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by tight do you mean you don't have to pull the lever much? mine's like that. start with it slack and get brake modulation down.
