Re: Disc's without power

zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 4/30/2025 2:39 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

 
 
Perhaps I misunderstand you b ut it appears that I described the symptoms
of a problem and you said it wasn't so. If it wasn't so why would I put
the bike in the best shop (also the most expensive)?

 
HE isn't saying you don't have a problem, dumbass, he's saying it
wouldn'tbe for the reasons you described.
 

 

To get a noticeable reduction in power from disks by being misaligned let
alone as significant as you said would require a massive amount of
misalignment, and frankly would bind the rotor well before that point.

 
true. and the brakes might not perform as well but there would still be
plenty of power.
 

 
Noise and lack of power are absolutely indicative of pads that are
contaminated, which is disks one real weakness, do need to be much more
careful about oils near them, unlike rim brakes.

 
Tommy has repeated complained in the last few months about challenges
bleeding the brakes. The more likely scenario is that he has air in the
line.

Well yes he really should be letting the bike shop do that, it’s clear he’s
confused.

 

 

That is as bad as you telling me that Garmin hadn't updated their
software after I got a notification to update it, did so, and there was a
major change in the average speed which showed a 2 mph increase in
average speed. It was your contention that if the version number didn't
change, the software didn't change. In an ideal world you would be
correct. But with people like Flunky claiming to be EE's we quite
obviously are not in an ideal world.
 
 
 

I have absolutely the same Garmin by all means find the Garmin update on
their website! You will not as like a few things you’re confabulating
stuff.

 
If it were true that an update not only didn't change the displayed
version but also resulted in a 2 mph increase in peoples average speeds,
it would have been all over the Garmin user forums.
 
News flash, it isn't. There isn't a company on the planet with any even
halfway reasonable reputation that pushes updates with no version
change. Maybe tommy in his illustrious career made software/firmware
changes and released the code without changing the revision, but such
practices are limited to only the hackiest of hacks or those with
malicious intent. Tommy isn't smart enough to release workable code with
malicious intent.
 
What happened was tommy figured out how to enable the autostop function
(after repeatedly insisting there was no such feature). This would
inherently increase the average speed. Of course, tommy would never
admit that he was using it wrong, only that some other mystical event
outside the realm of temporal possibilities (such as a riding a dent out
of his top tube) was responsible.
 
What's going to happen is that tommy will report back that there was
some sort of severe misalignment of the caliper mount and that the shop
had to re-machine the surface, Or maybe the caliper itself had some sort
of manufacturing defect where they drilled the mount incorrectly, or
maybe he the pads were the wrong ones even though they were marked with
the correct part number, and everything works now. IOW - it will never
be tommy's fault. If it is a case of the more likely scenario where he
didn't bleed them properly, he would never admit it.
 

I’m slightly surprised he admitted he was taking it to the shop! I
personally go for the how often am I likely to use said tools, can I
reasonably do it? My ability to fix stuff is rather limited now as the
brain doesn’t work the way it used to.

And the bike shop is a 5 min walk away and being a shop that does repairs
as their focus, it’s hardly expensive.

Roger Merriman