Anyone here running BB7 roads notice that when you first crack your brake lever, the outboard pad moves away from the rotor a bit before going back inward? I know my rear does it not sure about my front. My BB7 mountain brakes don't do this. I imagine to correct this I could ever so slightly raise up on my caliper arm prior to tightening the cable but I don't believe I should have to do that. I asked SRAM tech support and the guy said he'd never heard of this before.
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Well that is interesting. Got a link to that article?
I've been looking through my history and trying to search again and I can't find it. There was an article somewhere that was several pages down on Google where the guy made reference to having to take the slack out of the lever arm prior to tightening the bolt to cure this problem. And in another search I was reading a thread in these forums and somebody said theirs were doing the same thing. But other than those two instances I can't find anything else and I can't find either one of them now. Sorry
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it sounds like your cable was too loose. glad you got it sorted.
No it wasn't that. The second you cracked the brake lever the actuator arm moved. There was no cable slack whatsoever. It's just in that very first movement the outboard pad moved away from the rotor before going back in. It was something to do with slop in the actuator arm so I eliminated that by pushing it up about a 16th of an inch before I tightened the cable bolt.
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