New brakes making screeching sounds?!

@tomasito, if it's not the rim that the brakes press against, what is it? Not being sarky - I thought it was the rim.

I think tom means that they may not be machined.

[PiQuE got there first]

Yeah, the brake touches the rim. But some rims are machined for brakes, others are not.

My polo bike has a non-machined front rim. It sqeaked for the first week or two when braking, until all the paint wore off, since then it has been fine. A more efficient person would have simply sanded the paint off straight away, as per Hassan's suggestion.

And the great sheldon said, toe in thyne brake pads, lest they scream like the whore of babylon. Amen.

thanks all, much appreciated

problem with my brakes. hey i just put in some new brake pads on my polo bike and they work a treat! however, when i use them it lets of an unbearable screeching noise. this happens sometimes on my everyday bike aswell. Has anyone encountered this problem before/know how to fix it?

thanks

Luca.

Did you toe them in?

toe in of the pads (make the front touch the rim first)

FFS if you type squeaking bike brakes in to Google you get the answer in the first hit.

dovvles

these people are too fucking retarded to google

i think if you put things into google it has a little animation that directs them to jflfgssi

google does it to then watch us comment on how inept they are