Timeline for Why did the hydraulic disc brake stop working when riding down a steep mountain?
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 23:00 | comment | added | mattnz | my guess is when you stopped the cooling from air movement stopped, and the residual heat in the caliper and disc was enough to evaporate the brake fluid. It is likely you were a short time away from loosing brakes and it was lucky you stopped when you did. Read this... rodbikes.com/articles/disco-fever/redhot.html which links to bikerumor.com/2012/02/14/… (It scared the cr@p out of me thinking about the kids in your trailer) | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 9:52 | comment | added | erik | Nice additional answer, thank you. But it doesn’t explain my question, which was: Why that happened or how that happened: The brake stopped working completely after I had stopped the bike (but before it was working like a charm, only with a bad smell). And started to work again, when I pulled the lever a few times. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 9:12 | history | edited | mattnz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 3:37 | history | answered | mattnz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |