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Pads
Oct 30, 2016 20:16:22 GMT
Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 30, 2016 20:16:22 GMT
Last time I used my Trek in anger was a couple of months back while on hol on the Gower, which just about killed off my brake pads (always use Nukeproof branded pads) .. so I put the OE Shimano sintered ones back in short term, but didn't get round to buying more NP's
Anyway, I was going to the Wyre Forest on Friday, but with one thing and another, decided to do a local loop instead, of around 18miles involving no driving for a change , 50/50 road/off, and a couple of short but brutal climbs, followed by a hardpack decent of almost a kilometre where you can reach daft speeds if there's no dog walkers about
Brakes were ok for the general work, but toward the bottom of said decent doing about a million mph (ish) on me little 26er, it became painfully obvious that A. I wasn't on the Mega, and B. these feckin pads were shite !!! the rear barely managed to lock up, and I'm surprised the front didn't burst a hose the pressure I was using to try and come to a holt
I now have some NP sintered on there way, but puzzled as to why the Shimmy pads have kinda .. gone off!!??
I'm always REALLY careful about pad/rotor contamination, and all my bikes are kept in A1 mechanical order .. but these stoppers used to be absolutely mental (XT's, 203mm Icetech rotor) and now they are shite
Etching the rotors made no difference, nor detergent and boiling water soaking the pads ... any ideas ? (apart from sling um in the bin )
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Oct 30, 2016 20:22:08 GMT
Post by glynnsixo on Oct 30, 2016 20:22:08 GMT
have they glazed over? if so try roughing them up by laying a sheet of course emery paper or glass paper on a flat surface and rubbing the pads till they roughen.
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Pads
Oct 30, 2016 20:42:49 GMT
Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 30, 2016 20:42:49 GMT
have they glazed over? if so try roughing them up by laying a sheet of course emery paper or glass paper on a flat surface and rubbing the pads till they roughen. Yeah tried that one to bud
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Oct 31, 2016 13:34:00 GMT
Post by danthor on Oct 31, 2016 13:34:00 GMT
I recently put some Shimano pads in to replace my old Shimano pads and they felt mega different. After a weekend thrash around Innerleithern they feel a lot better. Still not quite like my old ones though. Might give them one more run before i removed them and try roughen them up with some sand paper or something.
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Pads
Oct 31, 2016 15:28:13 GMT
Post by ktmfiveforty on Oct 31, 2016 15:28:13 GMT
Tried every trick in the book with these of mine TBH, and have just lost their bite somehow
Like I said, there was a time when these brakes were a liability in some situations they were so sharp, which coming from a supermoto background I loved (hence always running a large front rotor)
The Nukey's will be here prob tomorrow, so wont throw um away, but keep them for emergency back up pads only
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Pads
Nov 2, 2016 18:21:33 GMT
Post by ktmfiveforty on Nov 2, 2016 18:21:33 GMT
NP pads in, normal eye poppin performance is resumed!
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