BB5 brakes with Vesta levers

Blommen

Hey

First post, yay!

I've got problems with my BB5 Rs brakes that I've got hooked up to my Vesta (for nexus) brake levers. Just can't seem to dial in the brakes so I either have no brakes, or super squiling ones. Someone said different pads might help, anyone here who knows?

Edit// It Was BB5 Rs, changed the topic..

Best/ Daniel from sweden

gbsahne001

silly question but is it the correct BB7 for the levers, as they come in two versions; one for MTB and VBrake levers and the other for road use.

BB7s in my experience do squeal quite a lot, especially in the rain. I used this page

http://howtosetuptheavidbb7.weebly.com/how-to-set-up-the-avid-bb7.html

as a guide to setting them up and had no complaints having followed it, other than the squealing.

boblo

Presumably you mean Versa not the 1970's curry brand? Assuming so, I've used road BB7's/Versa 8's and an Alfine. They were a little picky to set up (more so than Spyres) but worked fine. Yes the make racket in the wet but they stop as well as Spyres which are the benchmark.

ugo.santalucia

Squeeling is normal if it's wet... give them some time and see if it goes away

Blommen

Hey.. Yeah versa and I just checked again to see if it was the mTB or race model, notice that it was in fact the bb5 R I had, sorry about that.. It's not so much that they squeal when wet, it's either a squeal/pads on at all times or no brake power what so ever. I had a shop look at them once and they said they could not really make them work that well either.. I should add that I'm not great at tuning but tried the old unscrew, hold the brake hard while screwing back on...trick

Anyway, think the BB5 R is the right choice?

boblo

Looks like the OP has been edited to refer to BB5's. I have no experience of BB5's, my contribution relates to BB7's. I hear BB5's are a royal PIA to adjust. If you have these, I'd be inclined to ditch them for Spyres at about £80 from Taiwan. These work well with road levers, are simple and quick to set up and work really really well.

Blommen

boblo wrote:

Looks like the OP has been edited to refer to BB5's. I have no experience of BB5's, my contribution relates to BB7's. I hear BB5's are a royal PIA to adjust. If you have these, I'd be inclined to ditch them for Spyres at about £80 from Taiwan. These work well with road levers, are simple and quick to set up and work really really well.

Thanks Boblo, might just go ahead and to that.. Have a good one!

The Rookie

BB5 and BB7 are very similar.

You need proper adjustment on both pads, cantering the calliper isn't everything and you need to be very careful with the Avid CPS washers as it's easy for the calliper to twist when doing it up, the twist force is more than the disk can stop so it's better to centre by eye in my opinion.

It sounds to me like you just need to go through the set up step by step to get it all right.

gbsahne001

http://bikeshopgirl.com/2011/08/how-to- ... b5-brakes/

Blommen

Thanks guys, need to get on this but for now I need my wheel rebuilt after I somehow ended up with my foot in the wheel during a phone navigation - bump - wobble incident.