Arrow Sport Front Brake

[Simon.Gardiner]

Brian - I can just about decipher most of it, many thanks!

SG

[ian williams]

what you could do is to get a pair of brake shoes relined with soft linings [for road use] at villiers services and try that .
i have a leader and cafe racer arrow but also and NH with half width hubs and the brakes were poor on the NH and much like the leader braking .
i got my shoes relined by villiers services and had soft linings put on them , now i have a reasonable front and rear brake .

i remember my grandfather wrote to ariel back in the late 1950s about the bad front brakes on the 58 leader , ariel sent him a set of brake shoes to try and they locked the front wheel up when you used them , he of course didnt like them but it proves that there are linings that will suit the front brake if you try them and no need for major modifications .

i have a honda cb72 tls front hub in my arrow racer but it uses the early leader forks with the bracket at bottom of the forks , although the hubs are spoked to 18 inch alloy rims and i suspect its all laced up as per honda wheels ..

cheers , ian