Tools: Pliers of some sort, 5mm allen wrench. If you have to adjust the pads, most likely you will need a 10mm wrench or socket.

1. Disconnect your cable from your brake arm and pull it out.

2. Loosen the 5mm allen bolt from the spring housing.

3. Turn the spring housing in the direction that pulls the pad AWAY from the rim. Turn it enough that when you push the pad to the rim and let go, it immediatly springs back away.


4. Tighten the allem bolts down.

5. Make sure you get those steps right, it's very important.

6. Take your cable, insert it into the barrel adjuster

7. As you insert the cable into the adjuster, make sure the brake wire goes out the hole in the bottom of the adjuster. Once the black part of the cable (cable housing, with the metal tip, "metal casing") is seated into the barrel adjuster.

8. Set the barrel adjuster halfway.

9. You know the little part that you had to loosen to take the cable off? Well now you need to put the brake wire back through it.

10. Push your brake arms down to you rim.

11. With pliers, pull the wire away from the cable pincher. Keep tension to it.

12. Tighten the bolt for the wire pincher.

13. Take pressure off of the brake arms/pads. Remember, you were
holding them down?

14. Now if you did everything right, there are to probable out comes:
-A. The brake pads are tight on the rim and the wheel will not move OR

-B. You didn't keep the pads pinched to the rim or didn't keep enough tension on the wire while you tightened the pincher bolt down.


15.
-A. If your pads are tightened down on the rim, loosen your barrel adjuster so it gives the cable some slack.

-B. If there is too much slack (as in when you pull the lever the pads don't come in contact with the rim or there is too much travel when you pull the lever) you need to redo your brakes so there is less slack or tighten your barrel adjuster so there is less slack (remember though; adjusters can only adjust so much, too much or too little slack with not enough adjustment left and you will have to redo your brakes)

Well, that wasn't so hard, was it? Hopefully you are on your way to being fully capable of setting up and dialing brakes. Understanding and tuning brakes will take a little practice to have skill at. Be patient and don't give up. Just wait till you learn gyro's. You'll understnad why people ditch them. Or maybe you'll think they are crazy because of the ease in setting one up...