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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RE: Re: Disc Compatibility?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 12:59:48 -0500
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On 3/6/2025 11:57 AM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Thu Mar 6 06:04:53 2025 zen cycle  wrote:
>>> On 3/5/2025 2:17 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> On Tue Mar 4 21:55:28 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>>> cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Andrew, I have GRX levers and Ultegra actuators. It acts as if
>>>>>> these are
>>>>>> not compatible. The levers on both front and rear will not "pump" the
>>>>>> brake pades close enough to the discs so that they actuate with
>>>>>> almost no
>>>>>> pull. Instead they pull almost all of the way to the bar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The pads are hardly worn and there are no leaks from the connections.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Should be, uses same pads/hose fitting kit and so on, and appears to be
>>>>> same calipers broadly from Tiagra to Dura Ace, though Cues is I believe
>>>>> doing its own thing! Aka less performance more simple design.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What I was trying to discover was if the 10 speed GRX levers didn't
>>>> have the capacity of the 11 speed Ultegra actuators. That occurred to
>>>> me in a dream.
>>
>> Which is where tommy gets most of his silly ideas - dents popping out of
>> top tubes, for example
>>
>>> But since they are compatible it must be air in the
>>>> system. The thing that bothers me is that all of my previous disk
>>>> bikes had hard front and back brakes. This setup has the same pull on
>>>> front and back and the front is a straight shot up and bled without a
>>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Because the rear caliper line entry is at an unusual angle. The front
>>> points straight up.
>>>
>>> Need to remove the rear caliper form the frame so it can be at the
>>> lowest point in the system, line pointing up. Rap the caliper with a
>>> tool handle while purging the fluid. It has air in the nooks and
>>> crannies of the caliper.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You are very effective at saying "duhhhhh". 

Not nearly as effective as "mr. light lines".

> When are you going toi tell us that you have a PhD in metalurgy?

About the same time I tell you I rode 200 miles in one day.


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