Cheap vbrakes are absurdly cheap. Nice ones are also cheap. And consider if part of the brake has broken when will another part of it break? Time to upgrade! You could probably buy a full bike on Craigslist for the same price as one new shimano vbrake and have two newish brakes to install.
PracticalNeanderthal on
Youre going to have to replace that brake set. Thankfully, very nice Shimano v brake sets are only about $20, and pretty easy to setup.
onjefferis on
Go to a used bike shop or co-op and find a matching (or near matching) arm. $5 tops.
Globetrotter66 on
This material failure should be a warning for you : these no name brakes are much to cheap ! Better replace them as fast as you can ! Even the cheapest Shimano components are by far more reliable than this crap !
drewbaccaAWD on
You’ll run into a few problems trying to replace it.. one being, it’s not threaded in or anything so you’d need some means to press one in or rivet it into place. But the second problem is bigger, which is, no one sells these as individual replacement parts that I’m aware of and if you attempted to borrow one from another caliper you are more likely to break it in the process than gain a useable part.
Which leads to what everyone else has already said, you just replace the entire caliper. Unfortunately the entire brake is disposable as a unit. The only way around that is to buy high end components like Paul, where they sell replacement parts but you could buy about ten of these cheaper units for the price of one of those.
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V brakes. should be under $20
Cheap vbrakes are absurdly cheap. Nice ones are also cheap. And consider if part of the brake has broken when will another part of it break? Time to upgrade! You could probably buy a full bike on Craigslist for the same price as one new shimano vbrake and have two newish brakes to install.
Youre going to have to replace that brake set. Thankfully, very nice Shimano v brake sets are only about $20, and pretty easy to setup.
Go to a used bike shop or co-op and find a matching (or near matching) arm. $5 tops.
This material failure should be a warning for you : these no name brakes are much to cheap ! Better replace them as fast as you can ! Even the cheapest Shimano components are by far more reliable than this crap !
You’ll run into a few problems trying to replace it.. one being, it’s not threaded in or anything so you’d need some means to press one in or rivet it into place. But the second problem is bigger, which is, no one sells these as individual replacement parts that I’m aware of and if you attempted to borrow one from another caliper you are more likely to break it in the process than gain a useable part.
Which leads to what everyone else has already said, you just replace the entire caliper. Unfortunately the entire brake is disposable as a unit. The only way around that is to buy high end components like Paul, where they sell replacement parts but you could buy about ten of these cheaper units for the price of one of those.