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Hello, this is Russ with the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective again. We're also here
with Expert Village. So what we're going to do today is we're going to show you the last
kind of brake that maybe you haven't seen in the previous clips if this is the one you've
been looking for. This is the cantilever style brake. It?s a center pull brake. Often how
these work is you have one side that's removable and one side that's fixed. After you have
everything connected and make sure that your lever and everything is in a good position.
What we're going to do is to adjust these brake pads, sometimes a bit more complicated
than the other ones, but totally feasible to adjust. In the front there's going to be
a 5 millimeter wrench. This one only controls the brake pad, it does not loosen or tighten
anything. On the backside of it, there's a 10 millimeter nut. You can go ahead and loosen
that up. After you loosen that nut, it will allow the brake pad to be free, both in the
position of front to back which will adjust for toe and then up and down to ensure that
the brake pad is interfacing with the rim in the appropriate position. So what you're
going to want to do is make sure you have enough tension off of that nut so that you
can adjust it and create a little bit of toe in the front of it. The reason that we do
that is helps shed off some of the dirt and stuff that comes on to the braking surface,
but it also keeps it from squeaking and things like that, provides a little bit more braking
strength. After you line that one up and get it pretty close to where you want it, you're
probably going to want to hold it by hand and you can go ahead and turn this nut. Get
it relatively tight. And then go ahead and put your allen wrench back into the front
of it, the will allow you to kind of fix the brake pad into position and not let it move
and you can tighten that down the rest of the way. After you have that side tight, you
want to go ahead and do the other one. Make sure that they're both lined up and in the
appropriate position. Check it from the front, make sure, kind of get down there and see
that they're both across from each other. After you do that, often on these brakes they
are single sided adjustment, which means that only one side of them is adjustable. So in
this particular situation, it?s a 2 millimeter allen wrench right here on this set screw,
sometimes it can be a screwdriver. What you're going to want to do is just double check to
see which side needs a little bit more tension and as you roll this screw in, it creates
a little bit more tension on this side. Just going to want to turn that until you get good,
free movement from the wheel spinning through there. Double check your lever position. Make
sure that you feel good about that, that it?s not too short or too long. You can adjust
the cable as needed with the barrel adjuster up here. And that will allow you to have a
nice, free rolling ride without any resistance.