Timeline for What happened to the hydraulic disc brakes on my new bike?
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| Oct 6, 2023 at 20:44 | vote | accept | JRE | ||
| Oct 6, 2023 at 20:43 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2023 at 22:18 | answer | added | WornChain | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 21:12 | comment | added | Chris H | @Criggie some of the hills round here require dragging the brakes (too narrow and twisty to go fast, surface too bad to rely on braking into the bends, or stuck behind cars). A wet, filthy, 200km has been known to finish off already low pads, but wearing pads down to their back, even dragging the brakes, would take me many hundreds of km) | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 19:34 | answer | added | Fingel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 17:29 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | To repeat a rant I've made previously: the real culprit here is manufacturers' unwillingness to design and market e-bikes that offer sufficient torque and do regenerative braking. A properly designed e-bike really shouldn't need the mechanical brakes except for emergencies. Then it would also be sufficient to have such quickly worn-out brakes. On normal descents, the energy should go back into the battery instead of stupidly making heat and noise and wear. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 5:21 | comment | added | kyle | Some anecdata to calibrate your expectations: my kids-to-school commute begins with a 1mi downhill at ~10%, interspersed with stop signs. We easily tag 35mph between stop signs, then bring 120lbs of kids + 180lbs of me to a stop at each. I have to replace my name-brand pads every 750ish miles. Not all of those miles are downhill, but I suspect I'm on the higher end of brake usage all the same. | |
| Sep 18, 2023 at 2:11 | answer | added | Duncan C | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 18:53 | comment | added | WoJ | completely unrelated but may be useful (though not in your case, taken the discussion you had with the repair shop) - they are not to "refer you" to anything, they are the ones who have a contract with you and you should not care about how they deal with this in the background. This can prove useful because you are sometimes send back and forth between the vendor and the repair shop. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 10:14 | comment | added | JRE | @Michael: The wheels turn easily. We tried the bike out with and without the electric boost - the bike isn't any harder to pedal without boost than a normal bike. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 10:12 | comment | added | JRE | @Criggie: My wife says she didn't ride the brakes. Also, the brakes squealed from the beginning | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 9:39 | comment | added | Michael | Any chance the brake pads were constantly making contact and you didn’t notice because the motor made up for the increased drag? Make sure both wheels are spinning freely. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 4:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 17, 2023 at 1:31 | answer | added | Nathan Knutson | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 16, 2023 at 22:33 | comment | added | JRE | @Criggie: I'll ask my wife tomorrow. She's gone to bed already - it is after midnight here. | |
| Sep 16, 2023 at 21:53 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Question on technique - when going down the hill is the rider "riding" the brakes? IE, lightly dragging them to keep a check on the top speed? I can't see discolouration on the rotor which would suggest excess heat from dragging brakes. | |
| Sep 16, 2023 at 20:38 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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