Hello all. This little piece on my bike just snapped. I will need to get it replaced however I don’t know what it’s called?
Any ideas?
Picture of the broken one at the front and the rear break in tacked.
by BraveJeIIyNZ
Hello all. This little piece on my bike just snapped. I will need to get it replaced however I don’t know what it’s called?
Any ideas?
Picture of the broken one at the front and the rear break in tacked.
by BraveJeIIyNZ
7 Comments
Broken.
But, seriously, caliper I think?
Not replaceable. You’ll need a whole V-Brake arm (the part with the pad attached that says Avid. You will have to buy the full front set (both left and right arms). Not necessarily this exact set, but something like this:
https://www.ronsbikeshop.com/product/avid-single-digit-5-rim-brake-64268-1.htm
If you’re really lucky and have a good LBS, they might have a used V-brake in the “slops bucket” of parts they have salvaged from other bikes. That happened to me a while back. I made a point of buying some tubes and chain oil and other stuff from them, by way of thanks.
I have also rescued stuff from those sorry skeletons of bikes you see on the streets occasionally. Wheels, saddles, handlebars, pedals can be gone, but brake calipers and levers are frequently left intact. Maybe you can think of a few such wrecks in the neighbourhood?
It’s called the arm link, connects one of the arms to the noodle. As others have said you can’t replace just the link or just one arm. You gotta buy the whole assembly. Direct pull or “V-brakes” are fairly well standardized but a bike should could help you get the right ones then it’s a pretty easy switch to do yourself.
Currently a bit of kiwi ingenuity and a cable tie have done the trick for now. I can get it fix proper soon.
Will bike slowly and use rare breaks until needed.
Broken
That part is called a clevis. Other commenters are right, you should replace the whole caliper.