Re: Disc brake maintenance tips

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:24:40 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:29:37 +1000, James <james.e.steward@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On 15/6/24 18:12, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Disc brake maintenance tips from Cycling Savvy:
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https://cyclingsavvy.org/2024/06/caring-for-bicycle-disc-brakes/
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with an embedded link to Sheldon Brown's site on advantages & disadvantages:
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https://www.sheldonbrown.com/disc-brakes.html
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A bit confused article (cycling Savvy) as to what it wants to do ie try to
describe disk brakes or maintenance and like some is making it over
complicated and in some cases incorrect.
 
Such as pushing the pistons back, with the old pads as folks have been
advised for decades to do. And hydraulic disks are certainly from a user
perspective easier to work on, ie you change pads, the hydraulics and rotor
last years rotors at least can easily last decades.

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Easier in that you don't need to adjust the brakes as the pads wear, but
wait until the hydraulics have a problem and the cable brakes soon
become far easier to work on.

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It's not as though adjusting the pads in my cable disk brakes is a
problem. It takes a few seconds every several hundred miles. I
wouldn't swap to hydraulic brakes if you gave them to me, offered to
install them, and paid me.

To be honest there isn't anything that is complex to adjust to fix or
adjust on an operating bicycle :-)
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Cheers,

John B.