Davetrials Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Fresh from the box, its beautiful, and i cant ride it for shit as Ive never owned brand new disc brakes and cant deal with "bedding in" so at the moment its all hesitant manuals and stopping and taking photos of it. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Water- pour a bit of water over the calipers/rotors and ride around dragging the brake for a bit. Rinse and repeat a couple of times and you should be 90% of the way there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted January 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Thank you!, i knew there must be a way, i spent a good hour or so terrified of lifting up the front end, going from a hardcore UCI/TGS set up to this is different.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusevelt Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Post some decent daylight pics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 20 hours ago, Rusevelt said: Post some decent daylight pics. 21 hours ago, Davetrials said: Fresh from the box Yeah Dave. Get in your f**king time machine already. Get a f**king grip. Bike looks sweet as I said on FB dude. Look forward to some dry weather where we can fall off bikes together. ProTip: Dave's bed in tips of scrubbing brakes are even easier if you can sneak it into the Uni gym and whack it on a treadmill 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Less dragging more pulsing it on and off imo. Dragging can glaze pads. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daviesdt Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Yeah, you have to pulse the brake when scrubbing them, pour water over them then ride round slowly while very quickly popping the brake on and off. Works a treat. You'll also get forearms like popeye when you finish..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Pulsing is maybe the wrong term. Sounds like you're asking him to have the brake on slightly, then harder. That's not the case. What you need to do is jab the brakes. On. Off. Repeat. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 But never to a full stop. 20-30 times brake from 30km/h - 5km/h as fast as you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ. Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 2 hours ago, Ross McArthur said: Pulsing is maybe the wrong term. Sounds like you're asking him to have the brake on slightly, then harder. That's not the case. What you need to do is jab the brakes. On. Off. Repeat. Never do this. The process of bedding in brakes is to get an even coating of pad material on the rotor, if you jab the brakes you'll create high and low spots in the rotor and this will cause brake judder and you'll find that the brake works mint on certain spots of the rotor and completely rubbish on other parts. The way to do it is to ride up and down at a steady riding pace (15 mph-ish) and drag your brakes once up to speed and come to a slow and steady stop. Repeat 15/20 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMatt Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 put some tar on them and it will be reet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 3 hours ago, BJ. said: The way to do it is to ride up and down at a steady riding pace (15 mph-ish) and drag your brakes once up to speed and come to a slow and steady stop. Repeat 15/20 times. This is how you claze your pads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ. Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 27 minutes ago, niconj said: This is how you claze your pads. Nope. At that sort of speed you're not travelling quick enough the emit the amount of heat you would need to glaze a set of pads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niconj Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 20 minutes ago, BJ. said: Nope. At that sort of speed you're not travelling quick enough the emit the amount of heat you would need to glaze a set of pads. Ok. I never went wrong with going fast and braking hard until almost 0km/h. This is what Trickstuff and other companies suggest anyways. Your method probably works as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 On 1/30/2017 at 11:20 PM, monkeyseemonkeydo said: Water- pour a bit of water over the calipers/rotors and ride around dragging the brake for a bit. Rinse and repeat a couple of times and you should be 90% of the way there. ^ Just do that and you'll be fine. Ideally you don't want the rotors do completely dry out or the brake will clog up. Keep rinsing them as they'll drip a lot of black residue which consists of filings from the rotor being cut down by the pads. When the rotor is almost mirror like and the brake no longer makes a metallic rubbing sound when braking, you're good to go. It's also a great trick if your discs aren't working as well as they used to plus it also works on rim brakes. You want to keep flushing the rotor / rim clean with water until there is no residue coming off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 14 hours ago, BJ. said: Never do this. if you jab the brakes you'll create high and low spots in the rotor You do realise that its the pad that wears (considerably faster) not the disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ. Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 9 hours ago, Ross McArthur said: You do realise that its the pad that wears (considerably faster) not the disc. Yes of course I know this. The bedding in procedure is the pad leaving a residue of its self onto the rotor, the material we make disc brake pads out of can't grip onto a metalic surface which is why the brakes need to be bedded in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Nice bike. Take the brakes off then you'll have less people arguing over how to bed them in. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Says the man who cant route his cables properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifes-a-trial Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 On 2/1/2017 at 5:15 PM, BJ. said: Yes of course I know this. The bedding in procedure is the pad leaving a residue of its self onto the rotor, the material we make disc brake pads out of can't grip onto a metalic surface which is why the brakes need to be bedded in. Wrong 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 2 hours ago, Ross McArthur said: Says the man who cant route his cables properly. They've never caused me any problems while it's been in the shed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ. Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, lifes-a-trial said: Wrong I'm pretty sure @Adam@TartyBikes will tell you exactly what I've just said. As would anyone in the cycle trade. Edit: Edited February 2, 2017 by BJ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Cheers for all the advice guys, I'm just gonna roll around and ride it tonight the general idea seems to be simelar to Dave's first comment, apologies for the lack of pictures I built the bike one evening then went away, heading home this evening and will try and get some decent pictures tomorrow day time, Luke are you about for falling off and curb hopping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Sorry dude, I'm up near Notts/Derby (briefly seeing @dann2707 while I'm at it) Soon for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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