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From: security@think.ARPA (Security Guard)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Cure for Squeaky Brakes
Message-ID: <2830@think.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 13:26:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 13:26:39 1985
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Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: more cures

I've found many solutions to the problem of squeaky brakes:

    1. Apply your brakes at steady preasure as you ride
       and just in effect ride the skeak out. This, as one 
       can imagine, is also great exercise but can be done
       without great strain on a steady downgrade slope.
       (It works!)

    2. Clean your rims with an abraisive and steel wool.
       This is particularly helpful with sew-up rims as glue
       from the tubular gets on the braking area.

    3. Remove the top millimeter layer of your brake shoes
       wich in effect will thoughroughly clean them and the 
       new surface will be rough and not skeak or at least
       not as much.!

    4. sculpt your brake shoes as to be convex.

These are just a few more ways that might work depending on the 
problem. Bicycle repair is virtually truobleshooting. Two solutions 
might remedy the problem but one is always better. Most repairs are 
generally easy for those who possess the capability to think with 
commem sense.

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