[New (ish) to Trials - few brake questions]

Thanks guys,

Could try sanding the rim and seeing how it is before you fork out on anything. Often a completely smooth rim is louder and has more bite than a sanded down grind. Could also try running one 'good' pad and one 'shit' pad on a sanded rim. Sounds like you're not too bothered about out and out hold and bite but want to actually drag and modulate your brake?

Good call, I'll try sanding before I give up on the ground rim.

Yes your right, hold and bite are not that important to me. A little bit of slip is ok. Im a big fan of manuals so brake modulation is a must whilst i re-learn the balance point.

[New (ish) to Trials - few brake questions]

Interesting! Back when i started in trials, we used to use road tar (which I see some people still do) but I'd not come across rim grinding until last weekend.

Do you guys just put up with that noise as a sacrifice for decent bite? Its like when i pull the brake lever im sounding of an air horn!

I will try some other pad types like those TNNs before switch for a standard rim finish. Fingers crossed!

I did try some standard black magura pads on the ground rim, 10 pulls on the lever and the pads were completely toasted!

[New (ish) to Trials - few brake questions]

Hi all,

Good forum you have here!

I used to ride trials 10/15 years ago and recently have had a hankering to get back into it.

Back in the day I always wanted a Pashley 26Mhz, but couldnt afford one. I found one last week and snapped it up as my new ride. Attached photo.

I intend to restore it to its former glory, but its in pretty good nick any way.

The rear rim is heavily ground and no matter how much i adjust it, the brake howls like mad and resonates through the steel frame. I swear you could hear it a mile away!!

Anyway, its no good for me, and a shame as it was a really nice mavic ceramic rim.

Is there any tricks to reducing this noise (different pads/sand off the grind), or am i going to have to get new a rim?

Duncan