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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Disc brake maintenance tips
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:55:58 -0400
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:56:47 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

>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.
>> 
>From what you’ve said of your riding I suspect that hydraulic disk would be
>overkill, for reference I would get 600 ish miles out of pads with cable
>disks, and need to adjust them accordingly sometimes mid ride if it was a
>particularly wet gritty ride.
>
>Hydraulic is at least double that with no adjustment.
>
>Roger Merriman

I get 2 or 3 thousand miles on my brake pads and I might adjust them
every 5 or 6 hundred miles. The way I ride, I don't use the brakes
much.