On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 2:37:52 AM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 3:05:50 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 2:04:01 PM UTC-4, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 8:49:29 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 8:36:30 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 6:42:59 AM UTC-7, Tosspot wrote:
On 15/06/2020 19:10, Mark Cleary wrote:
So if I go the disk brakes route thinking Lynskey. Option for
mechanical or hydraulic, what is the better option? Are either of
them really all that hard to keep working with properly? Seems if you
have bleed hydraulic that would be a little more but nut rocket
science.

Finally I really do fine with standard rim brakes but seems the
future is only in disk. I can only see a downside to rim brakes in
going down long mountains and heating. Rain would make them better
too. Could all be completely overblown too?

Deacon Mark

I'd go hydraulic with mineral oil. Cable brakes require adjusting and
the cables crud up like any other cable system. DOT fluid requires
changing annually. Mineral oil is pretty much fit and forget. Nice
hard pads last forever if you don't need ultimate braking.

All my bikes have this set up.

Get the 1L bottle if you have a herd of Shimano disc bikes. https://www.universalcycles.com/shop...s.php?id=39972

The little bottles are ridiculously over-priced. I got my 1L for $17 on sale. It doesn't go bad after being opened like DOT fluid. I can spill it all over and still have enough for a lifetime.

That sounds good Jay, but the system uses almost no fluid (less than the small bottle) and never needs to be replenished unless you get a leak.. And unless you overtighten the connector that's unlikely.

Installing brakes on four bikes, one with a leaky caliper caused by a bad internal seal (which I fixed), it paid to get the bigger bottle. Really, they want $10 for 100ml when I got 1,000ml for $17. That's an $83 savings. I'll sell it to the neighbors. I'll sell you 100ml for only $8 plus $1 shipping. You'll still save a dollar. And its Shimano and red. A liter of ordinary non-red and non-Shimano mineral oil is probably $2, but I'm not comfortable experimenting with my brakes. Plus it wouldn't be red. I'd have to buy food coloring.

Wait - as we all know, red paint makes bikes faster. So wouldn't red brake fluid be counterproductive? Don't you want some color that would make things slower??

Disc brakes are so confusing!

Red is both fast and slow (e.g. red lights). It is cool in the summer, warm in the winter, light, strong and inexpensive (all three, and not any two). Red. It's America's color (with white and blue).

-- Jay Beattie.

Stiff and yet compliant.

Lou