Recent content by fooferdoggie

that sounds about as much fun as riding on solid rubber tires.

yep. though its good to take some alcohol in a spray bottle and flush the dust from the caliper once in awhile. our tandem developed a leak in the caliper. I kept getting black stuff on the rotor I would clean it and it would come back, found the bottom of the caliper had oil on it. that was...

yes but with a lot of heat any small amount of contaminate becomes the back stuff. or like on my new bike I had a bit of disc rub and the rotors both got the black on them. the brake cleaner wont clean the black off at all.

ya its nasty I use it once In awhile but not on the drive chain.

The cleaner won't remove any of the black streaks. If you use it every time, you have to bed in the pads too. I just use alcohol unless it won't get rid of the noise.

The bike came with 180mm rotors and 2-piston shim calipers. We were going slow, but we could not stop it on a steep trail. It did come with a rim brake, so that was too scary for it, but that was on the back for my wife so it could not be used all the time unless I could yell at her. We used it...

thats an idea. I dont need to clean on the go though. I figured comet would work too but I dont have any. I clean my ss pans with the barkeeper friend sandpaper really sucks unless its attached to my sander (G)

2 seconds on a 450# tandem may bleed 2mph off on a 18% grade with both brakes. One place we have to keep the speed below 10mph as it’s a T intersection. Longer grades not so steep, it’s different. The tandem if I let it loose on that one block hill would hit 40mph on a residential road with...

I have air-tech rotors 203mm and I have tried all the pads right now they are ceramic. thats been the best combo. but the problem is the heat is really fast and short. so its about instant heat for maybe 10 seconds then its done. the right rotor is all that made the difference the pads dont have...

yep. any of those lightly abrasive cleaners should work.

kiss and make up you two and no tongue.

With our tandem, it tends to get rotors that make noise because of the heat and the steep 18% grades we have to go down. We keep the speed down and long descents, and once in a while, a rotor will be squeaky. Sandpaper will fix it, and sometimes sanding the pads. But sandpaper is pretty slow on...

all these overpasses that come off of bridges gets a bit crazy.

expensive bell :D :D :D :D