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[Closed] Carbon rim brake squeal / clean

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Sounds horrible on my road bike.  Pads seem well adjusted and slightly toe-in, but I get some horrible squeal on hard braking and it’s been suggested I clean the rims braking surface.

What with, to avoid damaging the rims.

Thanks


 
Posted : 08/06/2019 12:54 pm
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Carbon brake howl is pretty standard. Every single person I've ridden with using carbon rims and a variety of pads has had it squeel like a banshee under certain conditions. My carbon disk and px 80 howl in damp conditions using swissstop yellows-the rear actually pulses . One of the lads gets a really high amplitude almost growl under hard breaking he's using Swiss stop blacks with yellow writing.

The long term solution seems to be disks.


 
Posted : 08/06/2019 5:45 pm

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