From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net> Subject: re: [CR]mafac brake question
> With different pads (Matthauser mtb ones work great), you will have a hard
> time to get brake squeal from a Mafac centerpull brake. And chatter like
> on many modern cantilevers is unheard of in centerpull brakes anyhow.
My Mafacs have been pretty quiet with the aftermarket replacement pads I'm using. (Don't actually know name brand) My Weinmann centerpulls, however, have been giving an account of themselves to make any cantilever or Mafac proud. I'm using Koolstop Continentals on one bike in place of oem Weinmanns. Went from no noise and no stopping to good brakes but lots of squeal. The other bike still has original Weinmann pads. Lots of squeal with narrow clincher or tubular rim. Oddly when I put the wider oem Raleigh rim back in place of the narrower tubular the pads were silent. The rear however was loud as ever. Maybe it's not the toe-in but angle of pad meeting rims I should be looking at?
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa