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    Quality side-pull caliper brakes/stopping power

    So I recently got a bike trailer to pull my daughter around in, and I would like to get some more stopping power from my brakes, I have brand new Taiwanese made ones on now, and I'm using V-pull brake pads, but they brake a bit soft with more of a slow rolling stop, the cheapie ones that were...
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    How do YOU route your cables?

    Just looking for ideas on how to route my cables in the most unobtrusive way, barring in-frame, I'm working with a cruiser frame which I've always liked the lines of and have a 3 speed, front and rear cables im working to route, I have a temporary setup I'm not liking too much, anyways, post...
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    79 mostly Schwinn cruiser

    As I got it cheap, from a garage sale. serial broke down to a 79 Schwinn, don't know the model, it's been parted and pieced together by previous owner. It also came with a thick and heavy bad black paint job :( painted over a previous bad paint job, also painted over nuts and bolts, headset...
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    FAIL! (rear brake issue) -- Update 5/17 - Now with pics!

    So I'm rebuilding a 79 schwinn cruiser that I bought at garage sale, after I got it home I noticed it had a nexus 3spd hub and freewheel, I thought cool, even better! it has a barely working front cantilever semi attached so I promply bought a new rear cantilever brake assembly, went to the...
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    3 speed hub questions

    So I picked up cruiser at a garage sale turned out to be a schwinn from 79, just noticed it has a 3 speed shimano nexus inter 3 hub, and it's freewheel, with no linkage for it whatsoever, just a hole through the axle, anybody know where I can get the parts to hook it up, all parts and info I...
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    New, from: San Jose, CA

    Well, new to the site but I've messed around with bikes, most of my life, mostly 10-15 yrs ago while in college, painting, mixing/matching cruisers 3 & 5 speeds and mountain bikes for me and my friends. Stopped all that for a while, had to work, get married and have a kid. So now a few of my...
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