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3.5 Adjusting brake tension
For V brakes (standard bike brakes):
1. Unscrew the bolt that holds the inner cable tension
2. Adjust the inner cable (lengthen it to lose the brake tension and tighten it
to increase it)
3. Tighten the bolt
For disc brakes:
•
Screw/unscrew (unscrew to loosen
tension/screw to in-crease it) the
cable adjusting bolt until reaching
the desired tension
If this is not enough:
•
Use an Allen wrench to unscrew
the cable fixing bolt and, while
releasing the lever, manually
position the cable to the desired
position, then tighten the screw
back
Sometimes the brakes’ malfunc-
tioning is not due to the cable
tension, but to the pads’ misplace-
ment, if this is the case:
1. Screw/unscrew the pad adjusting
screw
2. Then adjust the centering by
loosening the screws that hold the
centering-adjustment holes tight,
then move the whole caliper until
the rotor is precisely in its centre
3. Tighten the screws back
Centering-adjustment holes
