tyres - brakes

My Specialized Stumpjumper MTB runs 2.0 Specialized X-Roll knobbily tyres that are too wide to fit past the Shim LX V-brakes in the disengaged position (cable seat disengaged from one of the caliper arms) .
So I force the wheel through.

Is this what you mean?

Alternatively, I've found that V-brake pads have 2x different sized spacers along their mounting bolt which can be swapped (1x spacer sits btwn the pad & the brake arm where's the other usually resides btwn the arm & fastering nut - outside) to space the pad away from the caliper brake arm. This allows the brake arms to sit out wider & not foul against the sides of fat MTB tyres.

Is it V-brakes you have?

"Marx SS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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My Specialized Stumpjumper MTB runs 2.0 Specialized X-Roll knobbily
tyres that are too wide to fit past the Shim LX V-brakes in the
disengaged position (cable seat disengaged from one of the caliper
arms) .
So I force the wheel through.

Is this what you mean?

Alternatively, I've found that V-brake pads have 2x different sized
spacers along their mounting bolt which can be swapped (1x spacer sits
btwn the pad & the brake arm where's the other usually resides btwn the
arm & fastering nut - outside) to space the pad away from the caliper
brake arm. This allows the brake arms to sit out wider & not foul
against the sides of fat MTB tyres.

Is it V-brakes you have?

This is the only sentence that I understood, and the answer is, I think,
Yes, since the each pad has a wire connecting to it, hence it looks like a
"V".

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Marx SS

Oh, sounds like cantilevers.

V-brakes = V-brakes look like this.
Cantilevers = Cantilever brakes look like this.

Another new bike term might help = LBS.

Jeffry said:

Just put some 2nd tyres on to my mountain bike wheels, but now discovered
they are too wide for the current brake as they are set. Is there a way I
can readjust the brakes so that the wheels can fit in properly?

Try this site... parktool.comrepairOpen ↗

Or just deflate the tyres until the wheels are in place? 😄

Good luck with it!

cheers,
Ali

"Marx SS" wrote in message ...

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Oh, sounds like cantilevers.

V-brakes = 'V-brakes look like this.'
(http://www.sheldonbrown.com/images/vbrake-overall.jpg)
Cantilevers = 'Cantilever brakes look like this. '
(http://tinyurl.com/95rlf)

Discs = 'Round, shiny - chicks dig em'
http://tinyurl.com/9ry8x

cheers,
GPL

Jeffry said:

Just put some 2nd tyres on to my mountain bike wheels, but now discovered
they are too wide for the current brake as they are set. Is there a way I
can readjust the brakes so that the wheels can fit in properly?

I hope I'm not stating the obvious, but have you let the air out of the
tyres to fit them in? Then pump up tyres once the wheel is fitted in place.
Many MTB rims these days are quite narrow and the wide 2.1 tyres (fully
inflated) will not fit past a correctly set up rim brake even with the quick
release off.

Cheers
Peter