In today's episode of Rita's bike maintenance sessions: I'm trying to replace my brake pads on my road bike. The brakes are Shimano 105. Since our Bike Maintenance book said that this is an easy job, I thought I'll do it myself instead of letting the shop do it. Well, that was a good plan, until I needed to get the shoe out of the shoe holder. I unscrewed the fixing bolt and took it out and then thought I could just slide the remains of the old shoe out, but it's not moving at all. I've tried both sides of my rear brakes so far and neither of them is moving.
I should add that these brake blocks are
heavily worn - I should have replaced them much earlier.
So, I wondered if anybody has any good advice on how to deal with this other than going back to the bike shop and buying new shoe holders?
Any advice will be much appreciated!