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super late on this - but do the sram brakes up then adjust the position using a 14mm spanner on the nut closest to the fork/frame once they're all tight
Took me ages to work this out but if you do that they're the easiest brakes to centre.
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fredtc
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Not easy to adjust when you have a short head tube and tight brake cable angles.
When I had the Sram red callipers on my bike with 10cm head tube, I had to cut the cable 2-3mm at a time to make sure it wasn’t acting as a spring to push the brake arm over.
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What @Acliff said. By the time I realised it was the cable off-centering the calipers I had already botched the cable too short. Also a modern shimano lever-caliper combo has such nice braking feeling I have yet to feel the need to go disc
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Another pain point has been the sram aerolink brakes - they just refuse to center. Less of a problem for the rear, but a major problem for the front where a 9cm headtube means unavoidable cable bend. I have already routed the brake cables in the EU/US way such that it gives the front brake cable a bit more space, but still it is causing too much push/pull for the brakes to center. So here I am, living the "I-told-you-so" moment, when the one (of the very few) agreement of the internet is to stick with shimano DA calipers.
With that said, I'm now looking for 7900/ 9000 brake calipers if anyone is looking to offload. 9100 for whatever reason seems to warrant a much higher price, yet I don't see how it performs any differently.