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Hello, this is Russ with the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. Also here on behalf of
Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to adjust a regular caliper style brake.
In a previous clip, we showed you how to adjust a v-brake on a newer style mountain bike.
With this one, what you're going to have, a common problem is that the brake is too
far open or the cable has been stretched out. So assuming that maybe you've installed a
new brake cable at this point and you need to add tension, what we're going to do is
we're close up this caliper. We're going to take a 10 millimeter wrench here and loosen
this nut a little bit. That will allow us to pull the slack through the caliper there.
There are tools you can use to hold this in position, you can also squeeze it together
with your hands. And what you want to do is you want to get those brake pads down here
pretty close to the rim and provide a fair amount of tension there and then go ahead
and tighten this guy down. This is going to be kind of a guess and check system back and
forth, you might not get it right the first time, it might take you four tries, it?s hard
to say. After you've located that and got the nut all nice and tight on there, you can
go ahead and squeeze it, see what your brake tension is like on either side, spin the wheel,
see if it?s going to rub or not or how you feel about it. You might need to relocate
the brake pads depending upon where they're rubbing. This is also a 10 millimeter, often
the same size as the rest of the hardware on the brake. And just make sure that its
interfacing, that it?s not rubbing on the tire, if it is, it?s going to cause you a
flat at some point. Go ahead and double check both sides, make sure that you feel ok about
the location of it, make sure that you have good lever position and that the barrel adjuster
is rolled in most of the way here. And that will ensure that you have strong and powerful
braking for your riding experiences.