Anyone know anything about disc brakes?

Aye, dafuq are they even meant to do?

I know there's no quick fix for it but feel the need to rant a bit about setting up the front bb7 on the bike I'm working on. Rear set up easily but the front is spongy and impossible to align. Seems like the outboard piston is off somehow, the pad looks slanted when the inboard pad is parallel to the rotor. May have to tear caliper apart, arrrrgh!

What the deal with that? I know it's to stop the bolt coming loose, but I can't see why it would come loose unless Evans hired a kids for a mechanic.

Sound like a dodgy caliper, not uncommon on those brakes.

Solved it. The bolt for pre tensioning the return spring had fallen out, which was why the bloody pad dragged on the rotor. Replaced bolt and hey presto.

Hah, that happen, been building bikes with BB7s recently, forget how great they are to set up.

The chrome road one is awesome.

Here it is, if anyone runs into the same problem. Didn't even know it was supposed to be there, the little bugger (it's the one underneath the actuation arm)

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A set of Hope Enduro 4s I bought on retrobike arrived today. The front is leaking where the hose exits the banjo/hardware - I knew this and they were priced accordingly.

I can't really afford to lose any length off the hose so I'm thinking its new hose and hardware time eh? Anyway know if youre able to pull the banjo etc out of the (braided) hose? I presume the one at the leaky end might not be worth saving but the one at the other end?

The banjo is reusable but the olives and barbed insert should be binned IIRC.

Yup.

Think the banjo at the leaky end will be any gid? Is it worth fucking with the connection trying to fix the leak or just bosh a bit of new hose on for piece of mind? The hoses currently fitted are braided but a browny colour rather than silver. I think they are probably Goodridge in the 'Carbon' finish. If it is all Goodridge stuff the banjo will/should just unscrew from the hose yeah?

Might just be case of tightening it all up, but unlikely. Unscrew the banjo and take a look. TBH you'd probably be safer buying new fittings and cutting off the used portion of hose and starting again.

Yeah, it should be OK if it's the hose that failed, check it for damage and that before reusing it, use new washers to seal it or make sure the o-rings are alright.

Ok, I found a spanner in the flat so unscrewed this, anyone tell if it's a Hope or a Goodridge fiting or are they the same thing?

Other side looks like this,

So I presume the barb part of the banjo has sheared off. Strange thing is it doesn't appear to be in the hose,

Also, there's an olive in there. Early Goodridge? Not Goodgridge? Bodge to try and seal up around the sheared banjo?

Here's the rest of the banjo still attached to the lever,

I've unscrewed the caliper end and the barb is still present on the banjo down there so I think a metre of 'carbon' Goodridge hose plus a Hope Hose Connector kit for the lever end plus a new olive for the caliper end will have me right?

Bit worried that Hope braided hose seems to be 6mm and Goodridge stuff is 5.5mm so fittings might not be cross compatible.

I need to check the rear hose is long enough to fit my frame. If it's not then I'll maybe shorten the rear hose and use it on the front and buy a Goodridge kit for the rear.

Rear hose was long enough but it needed a bleed so just went with shortening it for the front as this saved me swapping the rotor is just fitted to use the old brake.

Off out for coffee with the inlaws the now, hopefully get it bled when I get back.

Annoyingly the 90degree banjo fitting means I can't use the hose routing on the back of the Krampus fork. Oh well.

Anyone got any suggestions for any decent, not hugely expensive, off the peg disc brake wheels for a lightweight touring build I'm helping a friend with?

The on one 29ers wheelset look good, if it's still discounted.

I've a mach1 29er rim/xt hub wheelset I got off German ebay, 2 years of commuting and no issues. As for touring, I often have my two kids along on front+rear rack meaning 40+ kilos of cargo and again no issues.

Edit: here's something similar

Fuuuuuu....

After a couple hours trying bleed my other Hope E4 then replacing some master cylinder seals then bleeding done more I had it to 90% but had to go to work. Left it in the garage went inside to get changed etc, when I was back in the garage getting my other bike out to ride to work I thought I'd give the brake a wee squeeze n see how it felt. Only problem, I'd removed the bleed blocks. Popped a piston and left a puddle of dot4 on the garage floor. Fuck. My. Life.

Popping the pistons on the front E4 to give them a bit of a clean and check the seals. Needed 3 hands so employed some zipties instead.

1 inch steel disc forks. Does such a thing exist? Looking to upgrade my Bob Jackson World tour. Low rider mounts nice but not a must. I need rack and fender mounts though.

We recently looked into this to turn a dolan kadet into a polo bike for a kid in Sheffield, ended up getting them made, although we had quite specific needs. There are a couple of crabon and alu options over on carboncycles.cc but probably not what you're after. Might have been other stuff too that I've forgotten as it was too long.

I was afraid that might be the case. Don't have the funds to have it custom built right now. Maybe i should ditch the cantis and try mini v´s for a start. Commuting through the Stockholm winter on rim brakes isn't ideal though.

There might have been other stuff but I remember it being tough to find and the main options we had were custom or the carboncycles ones due to needing them to be short to keep the geo right.