Originally Posted by tomtomtom123

With the old rims I had the stock v-brake brake arms and pads which were oem tektro. The right arm had dug a deeper groove into the arm than the left arm where the spring was rubbing against and had a delay of returning to neutral position when releasing the brake lever.

With the new rim I installed shimano brake arms which has a different spring design that doesn't rub on the arm. I installed koolstop single compound orange pads.

I set the tension so that the left arm touches the rim slightly before the right arm.

I don't see how the brake setup would cause greater rim wall wear on the drive side.

Someone theorized wheel alignment, but I don't see how that affects the brake engagement.