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Brake block
(redirected from brake blocks)

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The part of a brake holding the brake shoe.
A brake shoe.

See also: Brake Brake



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Reels possess either centrifugal brake blocks or magnetic brake systems, both of which can be adjusted for either greater or lesser spool resistance.
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As with most things if money is no problem you can go for the best, this would be an all carbon rim, strong and very light, but there are a few problems with these rims, first they don''t brake so well in wet conditions and you must use special brake blocks for carbon and they can be expensive, also the rim has to be perfectly round and not have any bulges in the rim wall as this will make braking quite erratic, carbon is a difficult material to work with and must be well looked after.
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He said that Fibrax -- a company probably best known for making the rubber brake blocks that have been fitted to millions of bikes in the last 100 years -- would continue to focus on foreign markets.
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