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Toe in!!! Or Toe out??? Interesting post on the net!
"I always hear people say you should set your rim brake pads with "toe-in". Even the masters say it. The problem is that they are all WRONG. Technically, you want toe-out on brake pads, hear me out.
Everybody thinks of toe-in when they are standing over their bike looking down at the brakes and wanting the front(with respect to the bike) of the pads angled in. This is the wrong reference system. The leading edge of the brake pad is the toe, and the trailing edge is the heel. What you have to realize is that it is the leading edge with respect to the rim, not the bike. The bike does not rub against the brake pads, the rim does. This means that the leading edge of the brake pad is the one that the rim rotates into which happens to be the one at the rear of the bike.
If you want quiet brakes, you want the trailing edge to contact the rim first. This means that you want toe-out."
mIKE
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