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shout outs to @cake for the mini moto and @amey for bringing it to his attention
dropped out of work early to fit this last night, a couple of pages back is my last experience of trying to fit a rear brake after moving my wheel back for increased clearances. TLDR on that one? the brake just sort of exploded
now thanks to the American made brake made from American made 6061 aluminium straight out of sierra Nevada I can finally over come this problem. thanks in most part to the short curved arms that give plenty of clearance for cyclocross tires or wide fenders. The spring tension is independently adjustable for each arm which means the brake can be precisely centered on the wheel and adjusted for return strength.
With a simple pivoting quick release on one arm, it’s easy to open the brake to remove a wheel. The cable enters the brake through a barrel adjuster at the top of the curved cable noodle. This adjuster makes it quick and painless to fine-tune the cable tension of the brake without tools.
Like the rest of their brakes, the MiniMoto has sealed stainless steel bushings in the pivots. These precisely machined bushings are what contact the brake posts of the frame and give the brake arms a smooth surface to pivot on.
There’s a reason this brake won CX Magazine’s “Best Rim Brake” award.
as you can imagine, with such enginerring quality as this, it was a breeze
it was not however, due to the weird, awkward and slightly vengeful frame design of the on one pompino (fitting traits of a design hailing from the uk) if you want to run a 35mm tyre and not lose your paint you have to run a mini v brake slammed all the way down, which just doesn't work with most short pull levers
mr paul did make this easy, i give him that, you set the cable tension before the spring tension so there is no faff. but the weedy ass cable tension bolt which came on it could not grip the cable and kept slipping when really grabbing at the brake.
Remembering gcse physics I promptly swapped this out for a larger washer and hey presto! i was ready to go
honestly, the sort of solution which would have made nasa proud.