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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: singlefin70 on November 01, 2007, 08:04 AM
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is there a secret to brakes with skyways?perhaps a certain type of block,the bloody things hardly work at all!!!!!!!
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don't know about skyways but with my aero zytecs I found the skyway style white blocks stopped me
but I was using Bulldog brakes and new school levers.
I also noticed I wore the blocks out in one session.
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There are various remedies for improving the braking on Tuff wheels.
Depending on the colour of the tuffs you could ditch the Skyway blocks and use Dia Compe blocks instead.
You can also wipe Coca-Cola around the rim to improve grip (I kid ye not) but it's probably easier to use Cillit Bang, the theory being that as the Coke/Cliit dries it leaves a sticky residue.
Some people gently sand the braking edge so that the pads have something to actually grip on to.
I personally lube the brake cable inside of the cable covers and adjust the calipers so that the blocks sit about 1mm off the rims and squeeze like fook :2funny:
You must also take into consideration the increased braking distance that is required to stop the extra weight you've accumulated over the last 20+ years. You're not 11 any more you know ;D
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Depending on the colour of the tuffs you could ditch the Skyway blocks and use Dia Compe blocks instead.
I wouldn't do this.
Dwain Dibbly's blocks were burning up at Creation, the smell was real nice. :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
but then he is a mad man, for normal people it might be okay.
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as super kev says also the new school tuff pads are much better than the old ones
or buy some proper wheels with spokes :LolLolLolLol:
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VANS brake shoes or TUFF pads will work fine if you set your brakes up nice, most other pads will wear out aftera days riding.
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cheers guys,thers no beatin the look of skyways to show off but dont look too cool when u stack it into a bunch of tourists down ere in cornwall cos ya cant stop.!!and at37 dont bounce off the floor anymore but stil weigh the same as i was when i was 21,all that surfin keepin me sorted...thanks again
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those skyway freestyle pads work well IMOH hard to find in black though :LolLolLolLol:
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BITD I used to run Koolstop pads as an alternative to the Skyway ones, always worked a treat for me :daumenhoch:
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What he said :daumenhoch:
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if you really want your brakes to bite , sand top skin off brake blocks. clean rims with water, feather brakes as wheel spins to catch dirt and wipe with dry rag. with chrome rims this should work great now but plastic wheels may need more so dab a little jif (or is it cif now) lemon on the rim and spin wheel. feather brake as it spins. this will work good, sometimes too good. if too strong make a mix of water & lemon to weaken strength & reapply. and dont ride near wasps. ha.
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Hi,
I didn t try all the "tips", but I change the pad "style" to genuine skyway... and nothing "better"... (are the new and long ones)
I will try to "brake in" a little to see whats happen.
I wil try out also the cleanning issue of the wheel?
does some one try with automotive brake cleaner spray?
I have a pair of dia-compe pads...
I wil also try...
But I have a alu rims that are beeing build... hope that works in the end...
and Skyway wheels remains for "show-off-poser-style"... :2funny:
any others ideas.. are needed.
by the way the skyway wheels and pads are black.
fLAVIO 8)
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Yeah Kool Stops for me too BITD, I actually bought a load from Chainreacion Cycles recently too :)
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hey singlefin
if none of the above work you could try what my mate did bitd he used to wack his foot inbetween the skyway fins.lol i kid you not.
he broke his fot in the end though
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Grey Koolstop pads - the dogs on Skyways :daumenhoch:
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I know that I´m not 15year old and no more 60kg anymore... but I remember that the brakes went fine at the time... with skyway... and I don t recall to have to do so many things to "brake" a little better. :LolLolLolLol:
(http://www.alansbmx.com/images/sky_propads.jpg)
thats what I have now... with the black skyway´s.
fLAVIO 8)
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coaster ;)
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i'd recomend the coca cola way aswell :daumenhoch:
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try sticky pads
best brake blocks about
they also come in red aswell as black
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try sticky pads
best brake blocks about
they also come in red aswell as black
were can I find those sticky pads.... ;)
thanks,
fLAVIO
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most bike shops should sell em
mine are called gooey pads super sticky gecko compound
they say stickier than a geckos toes lol
made by halt
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most bike shops should sell em
mine are called gooey pads super sticky gecko compound
they say stickier than a geckos toes lol
made by halt
do they sell online? (I´m from Portugal)
fLAVIO :daumenhoch:
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the Cola on the rims was a thing fiola started on the GT tour in 84. It works too.
does the modern cola still do the job... or have I have to try to find "NOS" Cola??? :2funny:
;) fLAVIO
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try here
http://www.alansbmx.com/index.php?cPath=32_55&sort=2a&page=4&osCsid=579e22c2a09907883e7759af079df1c4
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try here
http://www.alansbmx.com/index.php?cPath=32_55&sort=2a&page=4&osCsid=579e22c2a09907883e7759af079df1c4
"no Gecko" pads... (at least showned in the website brake products) :-[
or did I miss it?
fLAVIO
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i didnt get em from there i got mine from a lbs
but most of them pads should do the trick
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the Cola on the rims was a thing fiola started on the GT tour in 84. It works too.
does the modern cola still do the job... or have I have to try to find "NOS" Cola??? :2funny:
;) fLAVIO
you Should be ok as your Cola will be about 20 years behind ours if its like the rest of Portugal ;D
wowwwwwwwwwww :2funny: Jeff... you ´re too funny...
you should think about a new career. >:D
fLAVIO
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Just a bit of banter Fla , I love Portugal and one of the things I love most is that it is like England 20 years ago. I nearly bought a place there a few years ago but opted for Spain , it was a close call though.
I was joking too.. ;)
I guess that you are talking about the "Algarve" (or south side of Portugal... almost farmers and fisherman) ... were all you brit goes... and it isn´t not a reflex of what Portugal is... (Tourism anarchy)
I would say more that it is what it shouldn´t.
try to travel more in Portugal... you will get a reverse idea of "England 20 years ago".
I have myself a house "near" Barcelona in Spain and another in North of Lisbon near Ericeira for Summer and beach holidays,... and no way I would go to Algarve were "tons" of Yelling and Noising Tourists are. (not for me...)
You did fine to choose Spain over Portugal.