cmcdonnell wrote:That could be true about the toe in as I align my pads flat, i.e I loosen the pad shoes, line them up, squeeze the brake lever tight and tighten the pad shoes. Always worked fine on all my wheels but I weight 130bs. I'd worry about using any other pads myself as the campy red ones are recommended and so good imho.
I pretty much do this as well except I use a cut piece of old inner tube to tie around the lever and bar just enough to squeeze the lever and keep the pads on the rim. I place my 0.75 shim between the rear of the pad and the rim, then align everything and tighten it down. With the inner tube providing a little springy pressure you can still play around with pad adjustment and have the shims in there while you adjust it and firm things up.
When I experimented with the amount of toe-in I used a cut up piece of a Chris King headset plastic shim (which I never use). These are 0.25mm in thickness. It was a trial and error process, starting with 0.25, going out and trying it, then adding 0.25mm each time until I could brake hard, in wet or dry, and not have any bad sounds. Then I just found an old plastic credit card or whatever that was close to 0.75mm and cut it into small longish rectangular pieces that I could place between the rim and rear of the brake. Works fine.
I'm sure if you probably rode enough without toeing in, it might eventually wear just right so there wasn't any noise, but why would you want to put up with even for a moment from day one. Adjust them properly and you should be golden.
