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<blockquote data-quote="Matty" data-source="post: 123182" data-attributes="member: 1339"><p>Hi </p><p>There is a lot of information on the internet outside the Club forums about Vincent brakes for instance at</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vincentownersclub.co.uk/threads/rapide-front-brakes.4808/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>and a few other threads on the Club forum on brakes besides this one.</p><p>The Vincent owners club write up above is very comprehensive but involves many processes and workshop machines which I do not have. </p><p>My front brake is now pretty good, but not really able to lock the front wheel with a gentle squeeze.</p><p>So being pragmatic and having used the bike since 1956. I ended up doing the following.</p><p>1. Brake shoes relined with green woven material (from Saftek) to suit the steel drums on my Comet.</p><p>2. About a quarter of the lining removed from the cam end of the trailing shoes, otherwise the leading shoe wears out first, leaving the relatively unworn and inefficient trailing shoe trying to do most of the work.</p><p>3. Slightly elongating the pivots in the shoes so the cam pushes them a bit forwards into the drum.</p><p>4. Setting up the brake arms to be 90 degrees and the cables etc to be set to optimum ie. good quality and flow.</p><p>These fairly cheap and easy steps have now given me a front brake which is satisfactory but probably not as good as it could be if all the suggested fixes are incorporated.</p><p>The green woven material seems to have made the greatest improvement however.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matty, post: 123182, member: 1339"] Hi There is a lot of information on the internet outside the Club forums about Vincent brakes for instance at [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vincentownersclub.co.uk/threads/rapide-front-brakes.4808/[/URL] and a few other threads on the Club forum on brakes besides this one. The Vincent owners club write up above is very comprehensive but involves many processes and workshop machines which I do not have. My front brake is now pretty good, but not really able to lock the front wheel with a gentle squeeze. So being pragmatic and having used the bike since 1956. I ended up doing the following. 1. Brake shoes relined with green woven material (from Saftek) to suit the steel drums on my Comet. 2. About a quarter of the lining removed from the cam end of the trailing shoes, otherwise the leading shoe wears out first, leaving the relatively unworn and inefficient trailing shoe trying to do most of the work. 3. Slightly elongating the pivots in the shoes so the cam pushes them a bit forwards into the drum. 4. Setting up the brake arms to be 90 degrees and the cables etc to be set to optimum ie. good quality and flow. These fairly cheap and easy steps have now given me a front brake which is satisfactory but probably not as good as it could be if all the suggested fixes are incorporated. The green woven material seems to have made the greatest improvement however. [/QUOTE]
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