Try This Before Changing To Disc Brakes! | Maintenance Monday

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With disc brakes being heralded as the future of bike braking technology, it can be tempting to ditch your "useless" rim brakes, and go for some more modern discs instead. However, a good set of rim brakes can still perform really well! Ollie shows you some top maintenance hacks to try before you make the switch to disc brakes!

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Replace Cables
2:41 - Pad Setup
4:52 - Pad Wear
6:43 - Clean Your Pads
8:03 - Toe In The Pads
9:05 - Recondition The Caliper
11:02 - Upgrade Your Calipers

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Have you made the switch to disc brakes? Let us know down below!👇

gcntech
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We will never surrender the rim brake. Never!

LegSpinna
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Oli really has the perfect delivery for tech videos like this. It’s been great watching him grow into his role; Cycling Weekly’s loss has been our gain. Keep him GCN!

julesselmes
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Long live rim brakes. Always love your maintenance videos.

ammaabhie
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TiP: when cutting the outer cable (AKA, housing), place a piece of the old cable inside it so that the cutting blades do not crush the outer housing. After making the cut, you will have to shake the remnant of the inner cable out, or poke it out with an old or new inner cable. Then remove 1mm of the outer plastic and file the coiled brake outer to perfectly straight end. Finally, expand the end with an ice pick or nail. Same procedure for gear shift cables.

It's also very useful to pre-shape the cable outers by bending or coiling them so that they relax to smooth bends once they are on the bike frame. The first 2cm of outer entering or emerging from a cable stop should always be straight and kink free, so size them by testing with full handlebar movement. This can be tricky for a small frame.

bengt_axle
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Let's hope the consumer always gets to choose and not the supplier. I love my rim brakes (on my road bike) and ever since I retired with no more stop-start commute mileage, any rim wear is really minimal, even with 5K average annual mileage. Bikes should be simple and easy maintenance. Long live choice.

chaos
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This is why rim brakes are ideal for the average consumer. At home maintenance is so easy and affordable.

Mincher
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Instead of a card I use a rubber band wrapped around the brake pad to set toe-in. The rubber band provides more friction and prevents the pad from rotating as you tighten the pad to the brake arm. Also, I do like to have the gap between my front brake pads a little bigger than my rears so that my rear brakes engage first. No fun having the front wheels lock first and launching yourself over the handlebars...especially in an emergency stop. I have found find that on alloy rims the performance of Kool Stop Dual Surface Brake Pads never cease to delight. Most Kool Stop brake pads have a feature called a "Plow Tip" which substantially reduces the grit that can get trapped between the pads and rims. This effectively removes a common objection to rim brakes...that they contribute to premature wear of your rims. The plow tip can also be used to set the proper amount of toe-in. I bow to the engineers who invented this feature! Long live clever engineers!!! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

MrLuigi-oigm
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Had too many problems with rubbing. Drove me crazy. I’m sticking with rim brakes for now. Great tips - thanks.

peters
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I love my rim brakes on carbon wheels mostly just for the sound it makes. Sounds like a fighter jet.

glennlbs
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using the card as a shim to toe in breaks is so simple and glad to see this solution. thank you.

gregknipe
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rim brakes for me.

I had 2 2019 tcrs one rim the other disc. For me I prefer rim brakes the ease of set up and maintenance.

You'll get the keyboard warriors stating about rim wear but this literally takes years (unless u decide to use your best carbon wheels in winter on gritted roads of course which is then user error imo).

Wheels have also come a long way and resin temps are much much improved. I use a set of boras and shamals and find the braking on my carbon boras just as good as my shamals.

I totally get disc if you ride in the wet a lot but if it's hammering it down I'll just use the turbo 😂

danc
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Rim brakes are still the Best. Easy to repair and lighter. And if you live in a flat area the are enough.

chrisbrimo
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There is another

build into the brake shoe.
It is a plastic screw underneeth the pad intended to rub on the rim
thus creating a "notifing noise", usually without damaging the rim
and setting in before the shoe mounting screw brings early death
to a hoop.

Thanks for the informative video!
Myself, still rubbin' da rim. 😎😉

Adam_Antium
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Been on disc brakes for the last few years, I restored an older frame with new Campi rim calipers and I fell in love with rim brakes again.

biamarconchi
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Compressionless outer housing has significantly improved my rim brake stopping power. No more spongy feel anymore. And they're lighter weight than standard housing. Highly recommend this to upgrade your braking performance - I'm actually surprised it wasnt mentioned in the video

hoopdoggydogg
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I upgraded my Giant Defy rim brakes from the Giant home brand to Ultegras. Far superior braking and it’s nice to have a bit of ultegra bling 😊

michaelfisher
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Great video! I use both disc and rim brakes but I prefer the latter one.
Matching the pad to the rim can also make a difference. The black anodized (Campa Shamal Mille/Fulcrum Zero Nite) alu rims with their dedicated pads (blue) brake fantastically good.
My mate told me the same about Mavic Exalith and its due pads, albeit a bit noisier.

balikolaci
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You could have talked more about the difference between brake pads. They make a gigantic difference, especially if you are riding with extreme weight and really need more stopping power.

DiabloManiacz
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This is good. I am keeping my rim bike and upgrading the calipers. I like the braking confidence I have in the wet with my disc bike, but the rim bike looks fly and climbs like a champ.
Good tip on calipers not returning to full open after lever release. Will try servicing the old ones.

tempusfugit