[CR]: 27" to 700c...now with canti brakes?

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:49:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]: 27" to 700c...now with canti brakes?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Greetings, All---

I have a couple of touring framesets (within the CR timeline, of course!) with cantilever posts on the 27-inch standard. For "real world" tours I'm wanting to use 700c wheels (not yet built). This will create, I believe, a 4mm difference in the vertical orientation of the rims to the posts (and hence to the brake pads).

Before I go to the trouble of having the wheels built, how difficult will it be to adjust the canti brakes to strike the rim properly?

Specifically...

1) With a set of Shimano Deore XT cantilevers; and

2) With a set of Dia-Compe Gran-Compe cantilevers?

And will adjustment of the brakes create any difficult angles between the surface of the pads and the rim which may compromise stopping ability or create other problems?

I searched the archives and found only a couple of messages roughly on-point.

As always, many thanks to the brain trust!

Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin

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