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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disc brake maintenance tips
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:50:17 +0700
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:24:40 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:29:37 +1000, James <james.e.steward@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On 15/6/24 18:12, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> Disc brake maintenance tips from Cycling Savvy:
>>>>
>>>> https://cyclingsavvy.org/2024/06/caring-for-bicycle-disc-brakes/
>>>>
>>>> with an embedded link to Sheldon Brown's site on advantages & disadvantages:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.sheldonbrown.com/disc-brakes.html
>>>>
>>> 
>>> A bit confused article (cycling Savvy) as to what it wants to do ie try to
>>> describe disk brakes or maintenance and like some is making it over
>>> complicated and in some cases incorrect.
>>> 
>>> Such as pushing the pistons back, with the old pads as folks have been
>>> advised for decades to do. And hydraulic disks are certainly from a user
>>> perspective easier to work on, ie you change pads, the hydraulics and rotor
>>> last years rotors at least can easily last decades.
>>
>>Easier in that you don't need to adjust the brakes as the pads wear, but 
>>wait until the hydraulics have a problem and the cable brakes soon 
>>become far easier to work on.
>
>It's not as though adjusting the pads in my cable disk brakes is a
>problem. It takes a few seconds every several hundred miles. I
>wouldn't swap to hydraulic brakes if you gave them to me, offered to
>install them, and paid me.

To be honest there isn't anything that is complex to adjust to fix or
adjust on an operating bicycle :-)
-- 
Cheers,

John B.