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Tag Archives: brake
Drum brakes
New article about drum brakes — how they work, their advantages and disadvantages, installation, maintenance, safety considerations.
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Tagged bicycle, bowden cable, brake, cable, drum, drum brake, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, wheel
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Tandem Updates
Pages about tandems and tandeming Sheldon Brown and family on home-built tandems[/caption] have been updated. We have more about disc brakes, brake levers, Gates synchronizing belts, and details about upgrading a cheap beach-resort tandem to ride with a child.
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Tagged aluminum, bicycle, bottom bracket, brake, cable, chain, coaster brake, frame, gears, hub, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, tandem, tyres, wheel
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Band brakes
A band brake, common in Japan and occasionally seen in the USA, is an inside-out drum brake. Instead of brake shoes which press outward against the inside of a brake drum, a band brake has a flexible band which wraps … Continue reading
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Tagged band, band brake, bicycle, brake, cable, capstan, capstan effect, coaster brake, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, wheel
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Update on direct-pull brakes (“V brakes”)
Sheldonbrown.com makes a point of providing information which is hard to find elsewhere and which will help keep older bicycles working like new — or better. Shimano Parallel-Push V-brakes have a very nice feature in that the brake shoes approach … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, brake, cable, cantilever, direct pull, lever, noodle, parallel push, QR, quick release, removal, replacement, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, V brake
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How bicycle spokes transmit torque between hub and rim
We have a new article which describes how the spokes transmit pedaling and braking torque between the hub and rim. The spokes do it by changes in tension — but how much does the tension change? The article explains the … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bicycles, bike, brake, brown, calculate, calculation, capt, captain, captbike, cycle, cyclery, cycling, harris, pedaling, ratios, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, spoke, spokes, tension, torque, wheel
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New video about brake quick releases
A brake quick release lets you remove and replace a wheel without deflating the tire. Our new video shows how a brake quick release works. The video appears in our article about flat tires, and the glossary.
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Tagged bicycle, brake, cable, flat, lever, puncture, QR, quick release, removal, replacement, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, tire, wheel
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Shimano Rollerbrake page updated
Revisions to the Shimano Rollerbrake page: links to Shimano’s (finally) well-organized compilation of Rollerbrake documentation; information on installing front Rollerbrakes.
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Tagged axle, bicycle, bowden cable, brake, cable, drum brake, hub, maintenance, Nexus, repair, Roilerbrake, shelbroco, Sheldon, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, shimano, wheel
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Stopping and restarting
Much-expanded page on stopping and restarting, with 7 (count ’em) embedded videos showing good and bad techniques: http://sheldonbrown.com/starting.html
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Tagged bicycle, brake, cowboy, cowboy mount, cyclocross, power pedal start, restart, shuffle, shuffle start, start, stop
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Skid patch counts
Correction to formula and additional info including a calculation spreadsheet for the number of skid patches on the rear tire from skip-stop braking on a fixed-gear bicycle.
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Tagged bicycle, brake, fixed gear, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, skid patch, tires, tyres
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