Alright I honestly think one of the reasons sooo many of you kids ride brakeless is because you don't know how to set up brakes. Thought about this the other day when I was thinking about my days back working at a shop and always had to fix kids home done brakes set-ups daily (for free by the way). Anyways heres my tips on setting up a gyro (with dual lower cables, if your not running this style gyro set up get up to date son!)
Step 1:
First put your removable mounts and tabs in place, when screwing in the tabs get it just tight enough, if you over tighten it you will ruin it and have to retap some tabs :/
Step 2:
Take off your stem and put on your gyro and gyro plate
Step 3:
Place your brakes on and as your screwing the allen bolts in be sure to clamp on to the spring bolt and spin it in a direction that causes the pads to go up against the frame hold it their and tighten down that allen bolt, make it as tight as you can! This will help your brakes spring back!
Step 4:
Put your cables on with NO tension (I.E. have all the bolts screwed all the way in on all your tabs and cables.)
Step 5:
Now its time to adjust the brakes, the most annoying part of it all!
Okay if your brake pads are not evenly spaced from the rim on each side then you will have to adjust this bit pictured below. How you adjust this is tighten the cable corresponding to the brake arm until its as close to your rim as you can get it!
Now that those are even you may need to tighten up your upper cables to make it less squishy to do this just tighten these cables below
Then if that still wasn't enough you can go ahead and tighten the cables going into your gyro plate also, pictured below
Now you have dialed brakes! Time to get those abubucas and fufanus! Bring em back!
Next week how to true rims!
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