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Old April 9th 19, 03:35 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default Hydraulic disc brake experience

On 4/9/2019 9:25 AM, Ralph Barone wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 3:09:56 AM UTC-4, Chalo wrote:
A cable has never leaked out of one of my cable-actuated brakes, disc or
no. A cable has never fouled any of my breaking surfaces by touching
them, nor damaged the pads beyond repair.

These are a couple of things to bear in mind when you use oil instead of
cable to apply the brake.


+1



I think that I once had a brake cable "leak" out of the housing, resulting
in a loss of braking capability.



If it's British built his might help:
http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm


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