When your disc calliper is rubbing on your rotor and the noise just forces you to get off, loosen the calliper, realign as best you can and then retighten. This little tip was told to me by good ol’ Dave Hansen at Spearman Cycles in Wollongong.

Loosen the calliper from the fork or frame mount, grab the lever and hold, now retighten the calliper. EASY!

When the pads close on the rotor they automatically centre the loose calliper over the rotor, now when you tighten the calliper again and then release the lever the pads will retract and the calliper will be spot on centre!

I know this sounds too simple and you may laugh at me for thinking that no one out there knows this, but there may have been one solitary person whose life i have now made easier.

For those out there that have tried this and think it doesn’t work, i say try it again. There is always someone out there that will laugh and think they know better, C’mon, you know who you are!

Benji :)

Crash Carden adds:

Before doing anything like loosening caliper bolts, it might pay to just back off the quick release on the squeaky wheel and recentre the wheel. Check that the QR is nice and tight, and you’re away.

Nine, no make that ten times out of ten, it cures my brake squeakies.

Unlike rim brakes, the off centre forces from a disc brake are trying to twist your axle in the dropouts. Properly adjusted skewers, checked regular like, can kill lots of squeakies.

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Singletrackworld let the world know that the UK’s Hope Technologies, those bastions of ultra cool machined and anodised parts and brakes, are doing a June special, for the month of June!

Here is what they are offering…

An ano red Mono M4 with matching…everything.

If you are up for some of the love, check out Hope dealers, prolly overseas.

Since the weather’s turned nasty, maintenance on bikes has become somethingmother than blowing dust off them. One of the ways to improve shifting/braking [1] performance is to keep your cables clean. While cleaning and lubing is possible, eventually the cables will need replacing. Read the rest of this entry »