How do these things attach to the brakes?? Do they unscrew or what?? They are still in their packet and i don't really want to pull them out.

Are they hard to come by??????????

They look like they're for 990 brakes. There would be a little mount for them that they would go throuh and that would get tightened and hold them in place.

Like that.

there the later ones to work with dia compe ad 990s brakes the threadless post means the bolt to tighten them down is actualy under the arms so they can be a real ***** to set up personaly maybe easier on certain setups though maybe asked roberto i'm sure he'd be interested, and I'm prety sure those are fairly hard to come by.just remember they require certain 990 mounted brakes or some cantis mounted ones as they won't work on caliper brakes

They're meant for U-brakes like Dia Compe AD990 and such. Here's black ones:


I think they're usually refered to as "cantilever pads" beacuse they don't have threads like regular pads.

jeez i see 3 of us have gone postreply all at the same time, ^^^about the canti remrk there that would be only since there use on most canti but generaly there just reffered to as threadless posts.
hey scotty don't forget t give us a call tonight if you get a chance, and whats the go with the writing on your tyre.

[ June 24, 2006, 04:57 AM: Message edited by: bullyhotrod86jh ]

Well ya learn something new everyday!!! I've never seen these before.... Then again i've only built race bikes before..... Freestyle is full of surprises!!

right here's somthin else....if you heat up the knurl type stem on those pads with a lighter it will overcure the loctite glue and will screw off leaving a normal threaded tuff pad.

Yeah, thats right lewis! and then you can use the stem to convert your diacompe pads to fit 990's!

LOL

is that for real? i might try that is it only with that brand pad or what?

I only know of the skyway pads. Its for real. I have about 50 black and white 990 pads I was looking at them one day and one of the sleeves was loose and I could turn it.....it just unscrewed leaving a standard thread.

If you ever come across any old crap ones they are worth grabbing just for the stems

Just throw them in the bin Scotty.. no good buddy

I never knew that either. Thanks for the info.