Re: Bleeding Disc's

James <james.e.steward@gmail.com> wrote:

On 22/3/25 08:17, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 

 
SO much more finicky than dealing with cable actuated rim brakes!
 

This is a Tom thing! Cable disks have niche applications, much like
hydraulic rim brakes, both of which aren’t obsolete but are technological
dead ends, with the same products being sold.
 
Cable disks as they aren’t a sealed system, get muck into the callipers,
which absolutely will do a number on the calliper, my Gravel bike as new
had cable disks, used a few different callipers before I upgraded to
hydraulic.
 
They require much more maintenance, aka adjusting as the pads wear down,
aren’t as powerful as hydraulics and realistically are rather the worse of
both worlds.
 
Assuming the bike has the clearance for 32ish then rim brakes arguably are
easier to live with as long as it’s a road bike, rim pads have a remarkably
short lifespan on wet mucky rides! Let alone lack of power and so on.
 

 
I am very happy with my gravel bike equipped with cable actuated disc
brakes (TRP Spyre C), 160mm discs, Jagwire semi metallic pads and
compressionless housings.
 
Adjustment is infrequent and easy.  Braking performance is fine.
Maintainability is easy.
 

I used those in the year or so before I went tubeless/Hydraulic on the
bike, definitely a improvement on the stock single piston brakes but still
quite a way off hydraulic which is the system I’m quite used to as well,
plus bar changing pads near zero maintenance needed.

Roger Merriman