Brakes

[ketas44]

Hi there,

I have a couple off question about brakes because i seem to be struggling with my maguras (on the rear of my stock bike ). I do not trust them every time i try to make a bigger movie they seem to slip. I tried 2 sets of pads ( probably gonna order some new ones ), two different sets of levers, bled them x number of times doesn't seem to work. Seriously started to dabble with the idea of getting a rear disk, by the way have any of you tried to getting a mechanical rear disk ( like bb7 ) would be interested to here how that worked. I know that some use hydraulic disk brakes on stock bikes and there very good but thats just general preference.

Any suggestions would be very helpful thank u .

[Balls Deep trials team]

Use a brake booster grind your rim and get some plazmatic pads

or you mite just have a tiny bit of air in your brake

[theom]

What pads have you been trying? Were they set up right?

[ketas44]

I do use a booster sorry for not mentioning that and the rims are well grinded i think its been through at least 1 grind (bought it used). Will try looking into to the new pads cheers for that and of course will try to look at the bleeding tutorials and manuals maybe i'm doing it wrong :$ (hopefully not )

One them are stock magura pads and the other ones are onza. I think they are setup right well i did set them up using tartybikes video about brake setup and they do make the nose and have decent grip only on bigger drops to rear wheel they let me down (by bigger drop i mean of slightly bigger curve trying to keep my my rear wheel balance i'm still kinda knew to this ) cheers.

[old boy chez]

Use a brake booster grind your rim and get some plazmatic pads

or you mite just have a tiny bit of air in your brake

ill sec that.

befor i brake would slip only thing that does work is really really sweet fruit juice or road tar which works the best.

[isitafox]

I used to get this problem quite a bit, definately somewhere in the setup of your brake. Must be a bit of air in there somewhere or maybe not touching the rim very well/squarely. Don't want you to waste money on a disc when a bit of fiddling should fix you up.

Besides, I've found more riders prefer a rim brake on the back than a disc as they tend to be better at biting!

[ketas44]

Well the story so far is that i rebleed my brakes completely submerging the system in water (some you tube clip i watched ) seems to be working a bit better gonna borrow some newish pads from my buddy tomorrow go for a test run. Haven't tried any tar stuff yet, but will definitely will give it a shot when i have the chance. Rim breaks on the back of stocks seem to be the poplar choice from what i have seen, would be interested to see how a disk brake on the back feels but my financial situation doesn't isn't that good at the moment so i will fiddle with my maguras and one day i will get them right

Cheers for all the tips.

[old boy chez]

i dont agree with water as it will brake them after time. there is a reson why hs33 came with oil and all so the use oil on diggers may be slow return but it wont kill the brake.

[pogo]

i dont agree with water as it will brake them after time. there is a reson why hs33 came with oil and all so the use oil on diggers may be slow return but it wont kill the brake.

But water and anti freeze provides good lubrication and has a much lower viscosity than oil meaning a faster return of the lever.