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Do you work on larger vehicles like cars, trucks or motorcycles? Compared to the brakes on my car the disc brakes on my bicycle are trivially easy.
by dharmab 4y ago
Do you work on larger vehicles like cars, trucks or motorcycles? Compared to the brakes on my car the disc brakes on my bicycle are trivially easy.
- diarmuidc 4y agoWhy would you compare disc brakes to cars? Why not compare them to the rim brakes they are replacing. An order of magnitude more complicated to maintain
- justinator 4y agoI've gone far into the depths of hell trying to properly set up a pair of cantilever brakes to be performative. Disk brakes any day.
- jjav 4y ago> I've gone far into the depths of hell trying to properly set up a pair of cantilever brakes to be performative. This! I thought I'd never have to see cantilever brakes again until turns out they were used on kids bikes so had to deal with that. Luckily my child has now grown to a slightly larger bike with hydraulic disk brakes so life is back to being easy on that front.
- cheeze 4y agoBleeding brakes still sucks and requires specific tools. Cars are worse but bikes aren't particularly easy. You need more than a screwdrive and an allen wrench.
- ehnto 4y agoIf we really want to bring self-maintenance back we're going to have to have more gumption than this, and perhaps a special tool every now and then. The issue we're fighting isn't the battle against hard maintenance vs easy maintenance, it's against manufacturers deliberately making products that are expendable and not intended to be maintained. Hydraulic brakes are perfectly maintainable, you can even rebuild the whole system at home with a $6 pair of seal picks and a $12 seal kit, don't even need to be OEM seals.