Disc brakes are excellent, I find them absolutely brilliant. They are reliable and most of the time they don't need serious amount of maintenance. Of course to have them in a perfect order a little bit of a time needs to be sacrified and I need to clean them from time to time.
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race bike is not really in use during my off-season break, so I had the perfect chance to do some work on it and make sure the brakes are back to normal after the the savage muddy spins.
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| The rear caliper on my bike: the pistons are very dirty and sticky. They even caused the lever to be really rough |
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| Time to fit new pads I guess :) |
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| Sprayed some lube on the edge of the pistons |
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| Then cleaned the inside properly with a kitchen towel |
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| The caliper without the pads, pistons are lubed and pushed back all the way |
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| Inserting the pads back to the caliper |
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| Final check before the pin goes back to it's place |
After this short repair both of the brakes are like new and they work really the way I expect them to work. This little repair was just to make sure the brakes are ok for the next couple of rides but the bike nees to get a full, general service before I get my winter training program going. But this will be ok for now, will test of out on Saturday on the
ThinkBike.ie CC club spin.
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