When do the little bubbles stop coming out of the clear plastic hose, exactly?
Who's bright idea was it to fit these stupid things to pedal cycles anyway?
GAH.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)
I've bled brakes on cars but never on bikes. u_u Maybe strip them off and replace with rod-operated if they're determined to be difficult.
― Laurel, Thursday, 28 February 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)
maintenance aside, i always though hydro shifting might be neat. instantaneous! no stretch!
― gbx, Friday, 29 February 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)
maintenance aside
This is just fucking stupid. I have spent 2hrs going to and fro:
open bleed nipple 1/4 turn
slowly pull brake lever
close bleed nipple
let go brake lever
every 6 reps, top up master cylinder
the bubbles get a little smaller every time, but they're still coming out, a bit.
It is so unneccesary, it makes me really angry. There are motorbikes that weigh much more that any pedal bike, than can travel at 100mph+, that have cable discs that work great. NOBODY needs hydraulics on a fucking pedal cycle FFS, what a fucking crock of shit.
I could have fitted and set up 3 or 4 v-brakes in the time it's taken me to do this.
Never mind this bullshit. How many incompatible-with-each-other types of v-cantilever brake pad are there? When it comes down to it, two. How many for discs? Seriously, more than 100 different shapes, all of which are totally incompatible with any of the others.
This is totally symptomatic of the bike trade generally, this endless, needless over-complication of what should be a simple machine, that any reasonably competent home mechanic can fix. I'm seriously getting sick of this shit, really.
― Pashmina, Friday, 29 February 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)
I called a local bike shop who do more of this sort of work, to check the "going rate" for this job. £15-£25, it seems. Jesus Christ.
― Pashmina, Friday, 29 February 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)
DISAGREED...HYDRO BRAKES ARE AWESOME...A BITCH TO MAINTAIN...BUT SO SMOOTH!!!!!!!!!
― ddb, Friday, 29 February 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
electronic shifting
why u do shimano, why? ;_;
― Hunt3r, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:53 (seventeen years ago)
why does it say that this thread has 74 answers when u look at statistics but obv it doesn't?
― jergïns, Friday, 7 March 2008 07:08 (seventeen years ago)