Forgive me if this question has already been asked and answered, but what brake blocks do you use?
I may use wood rims on my 1939 R O Harrison when I build it up, and will need effective brakes, since it will have a derailleur (Super Champion Osgear) and I won't have the braking of a fixed wheel.
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
>From: Harvey Sachs <hmsachs@verizon.net>
>To: Classic Rendezvous
><classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>,dave@pelletizer.com, ternst1@cox.net
>Subject: RE: [CR]Spoke tension wooden rims
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:35:01 -0500
>
>"David Toppin" wrote, in the dialogue with Ted Ernst,
>
> >> In the Wheelmen, lots of people ride wood rims on the official tours,
> >> which are 10 miles and some ride centuries on them. I don't think they
>are all that fragile, but I'm sure some do come apart.
>++++++++++++++++
>My '38 Paramount, about which we've had conversations on the list, has
>relatively narrow wood rims of uncertain age, but not built up before I got
>them. I assume they were relatively late in the game. I laced them a bit on
>the slack side of a modern build, but not much, using lovely Torrington
>15/17 spokes Ted sold me. bike worked just fine on a real century with
>some hilliness and some bumps and stuff like that, and I'll continue to
>ride it when it's not raining. They work fine, and my bikes are either
>ridden or sold. But, others have different approaches.
>
>harvey sachs
>mcLean va