Dia Compe VC-900 Brakes

Last week I asked about setup info for these brakes and got no useful
responses. The person on whose bike I adjusted these brakes just
returned from her tour and reports things went pretty well, but I'd
still like to know what the official Dia Compe line is on setting
these things up.

As I said, the VC-900 has one straight arm and one bent arm. There's a
good picture at: http://www.firstflightbikes.com/Lbrake92.JPG

As you can infer from the picture, if you set up the pads so they are
symmetrically centered on the center-line of the bike then the
transverse (straddle) cable will not be centered on the bike. Is this
what Dia Compe had in mind?

If however you fiddle with the pad extensions (i.e. set the pad on the
straight arm further out and the one on the bent arm closer to the
arm) then you could probably center the transverse cable. Is this
perhaps what Dia Compe had in mind?

Or should I just (as I did before my friend left on her tour) take a
suck-and-see approach?


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