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From: James <james.e.steward@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Disc brake maintenance tips
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:29:37 +1000
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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.

-- 
JS