Skip to content
  • Shop
  • Story
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
Account Cart: 0
Menu
  • Shop
  • Story
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
Account 0
Shop | Components | Brakes | Center Pull Brakes | Racer

Product Videos

Related Products

Related products

  • Moon Unit

    $43.50 – $55.50     Select options

  • Canti Lever

    $92.50 – $190.50     Select options

  • Funky Monkey Cable Hanger

    $54.50 – $64.50     Select options

  • Spring Adjuster Nuts Pair

    $23.00     Select options

Racer

The Racer brake is a center pull caliper brake with long reach arms and plenty of clearance.

Clear

Technical Information

  • Material
    6061 Aluminum
  • Center Mount Weight
    157g
  • Braze-On Weight
    120g
  • Finish
    Anodized or Polshed
  • Anodized Color
    Black, Blue, or Silver
  • Cable Pull
    Short Pull ↓

    Short pull brakes have less leverage than long pull brakes and require a shorter amount of cable to be pulled when they are actuated.

    They are intended only for use with short pull brake levers such as our Cross Levers or Canti Levers, or short pull drop bar brake levers.
  • Brake Pads
    Salmon Kool Stop Thinline
  • Reach
    57mm-72mm ↓

    Brake reach is measured diagonally from the center of the center mount bolt to the top edge of the brake pad.
  • Additional Information
    Download
  • Spring Placement
    Exploded Assembly Drawing

Product Story

Based on the classic Mafac center pull, the Racer brake has been updated with modern materials and manufacturing. The long reaching arms are CNC machined with a T-shaped profile that makes them very stiff. The widely spaced pivots make room for larger tires and full-coverage fenders.

The Racer was originally designed to mount directly to the frame via center pull brake bosses. When a Braze-On Racer is mounted to these specially positioned center pull brake bosses, the brake is especially stiff, weighs less and has a simple integrated appearance.

It is important to note that the Braze-On Racer does not mount to brake bosses in the standard cantilever position, and it will not work with U-brake bosses. Please refer to our support article on Braze-On Center Pull Brakes for more information. Reach is determined by the height of the center pull brake bosses, which can be positioned by a frame builder to match up with 700c, 650b, or 26″ wheels.

We also make the Racer brake in a Center Mount version. An additional bridge spans the pivots and mounts to the frame with a bolt. The option is given for a shorter recessed bolt to work with modern frames, or a longer non-recessed bolt that works with older frames.

The Center Mount Racer is a long reach brake, and has 57mm to 72mm of reach (when measured diagonally from the center mount to the top of the brake pad). This works great on frames designed for long reach brakes, and can convert frames designed for 27″ wheels to 700c, or 700c to 650b.

Please note that all of our brakes are sold per wheel.

Stay in Touch

Our monthly email is an ongoing bike conversation for creative people who spend a lot of time in their garage.
Instagram post 2228615473897386886_25667512 Let’s talk about Pass & Stow racks! When we built the #SierraKlunker last year we asked @passandstowracks if he’d be interested in building us a rack for it and dang were we impressed! How can a structure so light be so solid?! With tubular hand-brazed construction and obsessive attention to detail, with features like: light mount, internal dynamo cable routing, water bottle braze-ons, and the ability to run panniers on the lowers make this the REAR DEAL for everything from city shlepping to hard-core mountain touring. We love that Matt takes his piles of boxed finished racks to the post office via cargo bike too! So you know when we started brainstorming the #SierraExplorerBike build one of the first things we thought of was “It’ll need a Pass and Stow!”
Instagram post 2227875551410204774_25667512 LETS TALK ABOUT KLAMPERS! 1. We’ve been making these brakes for 5 years now, and they’ve proven themselves all over the world, from desert touring to Sierra Nevada dusty downhills to icy Alaskan glaciers. Being-cable actuated, you don’t need any fluids or bleed kits or special tools. Bolt em on, break em in and enjoy the reliability. 2. The actuator arms are swappable between short-pull, long-pull, and Campy-pull. Gravel, mountain, road: pick a bike, these will work. 3. Available in Post-Mount and Flat-Mount. Cable tension can be adjusted on the caliper with the built-in barrel adjuster. 4. Here’s where the Klampers get their ⚡️POWER⚡️. Oversized bearings ride in the CNC machined races of our heat-treated steel pistons. 🦾 5. Instead of a plastic thrust washers we use flat needle roller thrust bearings. 6. We ship these brakes with USA made @koolstopusa pads but they’ll work with any brand that fit the most common Avid/SRAM Elixer pad shape, easy to find at most bike shops for convenience sake. 7. Pad adjusters are adjustable independently and tool free. 8. Machined to the highest tolerances by us right here in Chico California by total BIKE NERDS. 9. We don’t generally encourage people to completely disassemble their brakes like this (you shouldn’t need to!) but this does show how simple and field serviceable these brakes really are with nothing but a good multitool. Thanks for looking! 👀! ✌️
Instagram post 2227139466140848826_25667512 We always have love for a good Surly build! #Repost @outer.shell ・・・ “Y’all remember when @surlybikes first released the Cross Check? Such an affordable, steel, do-everything frame. Paired perfectly as the “practical bike” alongside that NJS track frame back in 2008 right?? I bet some of you still have one around! . This stunning example was built (and photographed) by @dirtdrops for his partner, with some sweet purple bling from our friends at @paulcomponent 😍”
Instagram post 2227128779062741009_25667512 As we witness the devastation of the Australian bushfires we cannot help but feel A LOT of empathy for what the people (and animals) of Australia are going though. We wanted to help but were just not sure what we could do…then we found some inspiration from our buddies over at @crustbikes who gave away a brand-new Crust frame for donation to the relief effort. So we thought, hey, we could do something like that! We dug around and came up with this one-off gruppo and we want YOU to have it! All you have to do is go donate $25 (or more!) to one of the direct relief efforts listed below, take a screen shot of your donation and email lindsay@paulcomp.com with the subject Australian Fire Relief. We will choose a random winner from a hat on Feb 5th. Included in the gruppo are: 2 sets of green Neo-Retro brakes with black adjustor nuts, a set of Canti Levers (right side green, left side black), 1 set of black Moon Units, a green Stem Cap Light Mount, black and green 100mm and 130/135mm Quick Release Skewers and one sweet PAUL Dune Buggy Bandana. We know personally the havoc that fires cause, the folks of Australia are going to need our help. Let’s take care of each other! Ways to donate (there are many others too, just be sure it’s not a scam): https://www.wires.org.au/donate/ways-to-help https://givit.worldsecuresystems.com/donate-funds https://deadlyscience.icu/ https://cfsfoundation.org.au/donate https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/ https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/contactus/Pages/Donations.aspx
Instagram post 2222207685931347279_25667512 •Part 2 of 2• Holy smokes, the #SierraExplorerBike fabrication is UNDERWAY! When @sierranevada asked us if we’d build them another sweet bike to show off at @seaotterclassic (and then give away) we said “Heck yeah!”. Then we asked our buddy Tyler at @btchn.bikes here in Chico if he wanted to build us a rad #BikePacking frame and he said “Hell YES!” and 💣BOOM💥 the project has begun. The torch is LIT👨‍🏭 and in these photos Tyler is installing bottle braze-ons and brazing the front triangle, then brazing the chainstays, then chainstays to dropouts, while checking alignment along the way on his NECA frame alignment table. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below🗣, and stay tuned for more process photos! 📺🍿
Instagram post 2222142469789144008_25667512 •Part 1 of 2• Holy smokes, the #SierraExplorerBike fabrication is UNDERWAY! When @sierranevada asked us if we’d conjure up another sweet bike to show off at @seaotterclassic (and then give away) we said “Heck yeah!”. Then we asked our buddy Tyler at @btchn.bikes here in Chico if he wanted to build us a rad #BikePacking frame and he said “Hell YES!” and 💣BOOM💥 the project has begun. Here he is using wooden blocks to get some seatstay bends exactly how he wants em. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below🗣, and stay tuned for more process photos! 📺🍿
Paul Component Engineering
  • info@paulcomp.com
  • 530–345–4371
  • 11204 Midway
  • Chico, CA 95928
Support
  • Policies
  • Dealer Application
  • Support
  • Story
  • Say Hello
  • Gift Certificates
Follow Along
© 2020 — Have a nice ride.