Servicing calliper brake units

Follow these instructions if your calliper brakes clog with road dirt, if the brake-levers stick or if the brake doesn’t return smartly when you release the brake-lever.

Always do one brake at a time – that way, you’ve always got a complete one to refer back to if you get stuck in the middle of reassembly. Take particular care to clean road grime away from around the return spring. There isn’t much of a gap between the spring and the calliper arms, so it doesn’t take much of a build-up of detritus to make everything feel sluggish. For the full spring clean effect on tired brakes, combine this service with a new pair of blocks and a new brake cable. Once you’ve got all your tools out, it doesn’t take much longer to do the whole lot at once, and you’ll feel the difference in increased braking control straight away. Fresh brake blocks are easier on your…

You're reading a preview of

Bike Maintenance Tips, Tricks & Techniques (Digital) - 1 Issue, Bike Maintenance Tips, Tricks & Techniques 3rd Edition

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.