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Originally Posted by SeaSlugs
ive wondered this - if the front brake arms ideally should be locked pretty hard at straight up and down but free tilted 15* forward - shouldnt the cross shaft arms be the same? so when thier at straight up and down its maximum force applied to the brakes?
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I've thought the same thing. If you start straight up, as you pull on the rod, you exponentially move less and less. It does look however like if things are in good shape, the arms at each wheel doesn't need to move very far. The arms on my cross-shaft do tilt, but the wrong direction! My brakes are coming on very good but require about 2/3 of the pedal to do so. Once that's straightened out it should take a lot less pedal. My buddy Dick Steinkamp's Tudor has FHT's floaters, they take very little pedal pressure, they really do feel like power brakes. I may go that way yet.