As soon as I brake the non drive side brake pad pushes against the rim and stays there, I have to manually pull it back for it to not rub. I watched several videos on how to center a single pivot brake, but the problem remains. This has been a problem since I bought the brake a couple weeks ago.

Brake pad sticks to one side when I brake?
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  1. fuzzybunnies1 on

    There is a special tool that the video shows, if you don’t want to buy it the tool isn’t needed. Make the the brake is properly tightened. You’ll need a medium sized flat head screw driver and a small hammer or mallet. For you, place the screw driver on the spring near where it comes out of the pivot bolt and give the screwdriver a small tap. It’ll shift the brake the opposite way, repeat as necessary and increase the force of the blows some if it isn’t moving. Better a series of lighter blows though than one hard one. Make sure you put the screw driver blade perpendicular to the spring so it won’t slip off as easy and a broad drift can also be used instead of the screwdriver. The parktool tool is great but the number of bikes it wouldn’t squeeze into is rather high and the screwdriver method wasn’t uncommon when these kid of brakes were common.

  2. Same thing happend to me. For me i just needed to take them apart and regrease. otherwise u need to make ajustment as mentioned in other comments

  3. Sometimes, if the brake pad is mounted a little bit too low against the rim and misses the braking surface, the very bottom of the pad will form a little lip (since it not getting worn down by the rim and that little lip will get stuck under the edge of the rim causing that side of the brake to get hung up. Check the bottom part of the pad for a possible lip. If there is one you can trim it flush with the rest of the pad with a blade or sand down. And maybe adjust the pad up a little bit higher on the rim braking surface.

  4. I’m not an expert, so don’t listen to me, but what I’ve done is loosen that side a little bit, and sprayed WD-40 on it, and left it.

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