Brake shoes.

[Porsche924]

What are the best brake shoes to use with vintage chrome rims?

 

[Chris S]

Most people recommend leather-faced brake shoes such as these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-...399871?hash=item2acac2f17f:g:ZrYAAOSwWEZaXyz7

Unfortunately their efficiency is reduced when the leather strip wears off. I prefer soft rubber. They work just as well in the wet and last a lot longer.

 

[Blue Hills]

Your shoes?
sorry.

 

[fossyant]

Your shoes?
sorry.

Or an anchor !

 

[fossyant]

And a good dentist !

 

[Ian H]

The shoe is the metal holder for the block or pad, which is the thing you're asking about. Leather was the traditional block for chrome rims.
You'll learn good riding skills & anticipation.

 

[raleighnut]

Fibrax are good, well as good as anything on chromed rims. They make a very abrasive pad for the purpose but don't use them on ally rims, they'll eat em.

 

[si_c]

For chrome rims? Your face is probably as good as it gets

 

[fossyant]

Top tip - don't ride in the wet !

 

[Ian H]

Top tip - don't ride in the wet !

I don't see why not. Tyres on chrome rims grip as well as those on alloy rims.

 

[fossyant]

I don't see why not. Tyres on chrome rims grip as well as those on alloy rims.

Aye, but he'll have the stopping distance of a super tanker with chrome rims.

 

[straas]

I had a bike with chrome rims - got rid of it shortly after I stopped in the middle of a junction rather than at the sideroad - lethal.

 

[tyred]

Anticipation is the key.

 

[Blue Hills]

Anticipation is the key.

Anticipation of death/death wish?

 

[rogerzilla]

Sometimes nothing happened for 20 yards, then both wheels locked (it's perfectly possible to lock a front wheel by snatching at the brake, especially on a wet road). That was always entertaining.