Rear Avid Disc, Anyone Used One?

[ogre]

Btw - anyone used tar with disc brake? Will it make the rotor contaminated forever?

I did it on my saracen get-around bike, for a laugh, i don't know if it's contaminated it though, not to fussed lol. prety fun going down hills smoke comes out of the calliper hehe it pWN35

[ScotchDave]

Tar is essentially the heaviest fraction of crude oil, it is an oil, therefore will contaminate your disc brake.

[Zordon]

Fortunatelly I didn't use tar as my brake seems to be bedded in now. Uber powerfull At last it doesn't slip backwards.

But of course another problem had to occur - the rotor bolts come loose. Today I had to tighten them few times and finally I rounded off my torx key. To prevent rotor loosening I replaced two of the bolts with some standard bolts (to be tightened by standard wrench, neither allen nor torx, I even don't know how it's called in english lol) so now I can tighten these two bolts with a lot more power. Is it ok or should I go back to torx ones?

[Glass]

hello.

I have a revell with just disc mounts and want a damn good brake. will an avid 203 kill my bike. we re talking cable here. anyone used one?

I wouldnt recommend running a rear mechanical disc brake because of the cable slack (like with V-brakes). I ran a rear Avid mech and had to squeeze loads on the levers just to get it to lock. As a front brake it is amazing and beats several hydraulics out there. Get a rear hydraulic disc brake if you wanna go disc. I've been running a Formula before with an avid 185mm disc and it is sweet. I blew up a Avid Juice 7 but when it was working it was also amazing.

later