New answers tagged disc-brake
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How do you keep disc brakes on internal hubs aligned with the caliper?
There are, in general, four approaches that are commonly taken.
The first, mostly used with solid axle designs, is a floating rear caliper mount with horizontal dropouts. In this type of design, the ...
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How do you keep disc brakes on internal hubs aligned with the caliper?
One answer is to use a belt drive rather than a chain to avoid the stretch in the first place (and as a bonus you also get to skip chain lubrication)
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How do you keep disc brakes on internal hubs aligned with the caliper?
There are some high-end IGH/single-speed frames where the dropout is reconceptualized: there is a part that carries the through-axle and brake, and this part mounts to a slot in the frame, so it can ...
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How do you keep disc brakes on internal hubs aligned with the caliper?
IGH do not require horizontal dropouts, a large part of the bikes sold with IGH are not using horizontal dropouts. Such dropouts are a very simple solution to a problem that arises when there's no ...
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Loud squeal from front wheel - mechanical disc brake, QR axle
Got to the bottom of it. Was the mudguard! Tyres are thick and pretty knobbly and it was rubbing and squeaking against the mudguard.
Not what I expected but just glad it's resolved. Will invest in ...
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Fore/aft adjustment of disc brake
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Disc brakes and pads have enough surface area to tolerate some amount of misalignment, as long as you don't need all the brake-torque you can get (which you won't ...
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TEKTRO Road Bike Mechanical Disc Brakes MD-C550 Pads
I had the same issue with the Trek Domane AL 2 Disk but successfully used the E10.11 with the MD-C550 disc brakes as replacement pads.
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