i have luck with just pliers. but to make it easy to hold the carrier. i take a cone wrench and bolt the carrier to the enclosed triangle section.
i've also pushed a pad out using the corner of a counter top.
to get the pads in i get it wet under the faucet then smear a little soap in the groove. they slide right in the carrier and then i just rinse it off and then dry it. very simple.
Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, USA
> From: sean flores <seaneee175@gmail.com>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Modolo brakes - hard to replace rubber shoes in holders?
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, dankasha@yahoo.com
\r?\n> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 1:58 PM
\r?\n> Dan-
\r?\n>
\r?\n> This can be a royal PITA. Most people try and take pliers
\r?\n> to them and pull
\r?\n> the shoes out, the problem with that method is that when
\r?\n> you pull against
\r?\n> the holder it can tend to expand the pad, thus making in
\r?\n> much harder to get
\r?\n> out. The method that I have found to work well is to put
\r?\n> the brake pad in a
\r?\n> vice and squeeze it down tightly, this will keep it from
\r?\n> "expanding", then
\r?\n> remove the holder from the pad rather than the pad from the
\r?\n> holder.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Sean Flores
\r?\n> San Francisco, CA