I just spent the weekend switching over parts on all my bikes and it seems im not having much success here. The second issue that has come up is as follows.
Got new break pads that are about 1/8 inch wider then my last set, i put them in but because of there extra width they are always rubbing on the rim. I adjusted the break cable length and made sufficient changes but now the issue is that one break pad sits about 1/8 inch away from the rim but the other side of the break pad is sitting 1/2 inch away from the rim. No matter what i do i cant seem to get any consistency between the two. This is happening on all three of my bikes that i changed the pads on. Its very annoying as i am only getting half the breaking force when i break unless i slam the break lever all the way but then it just wears the one side of the break pad completely down. I thought maybe the pads were just messed up so i put the old ones back on but even the old ones are not evenly paced as well. Is this something that i should be doing with the spring tension on the frames break mounts? or should i be looking more into the break cables?
any help would be greatly appreciated
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