Anyone know anything about disc brakes?

I've got one of the older micro drive HPG which doesn't have a button, but not sure it'd make a difference. I used an adjustable spanner to tighten the core up, was wondering about whether I should use blue Loctite but managed to do without, not sure what it'd do if it dripped onto the tube.

The button helps, I used that lezyne end on 2 or 3 bikes a day for about 10 months, probably unscrewed 3 or 4 valve cores. Now we have a lezyne quick release style end, no problem with presta but it's bloody tight on schrader.

lezyne quick release style end

What pump brand / model has that? do want!

We just stuck a couple of these on the travel drive pumps we use.

So I had my second and third ever rides on my new disc brake bike today, and first ride on discs in the wet. They're amazing. How incredible to be able to stop when you want, whether or not you've just ridden through a puddle or whatever, without the sound of your rims wearing away, or just nothing happening. Fantastic. Rim brakes can sod off.

Rim brakes can sod off.

Especially cantis....

I had my first ride in the rain on hydraulic discs and the front sounds like a car horn when I brake in the wet!

Anyone got any idea what I need to adjust/change? Pads?

Try cantis.

Lol, my discs still stopped, my cantis always scared the shit out of me in the wet.

It was so bad I a few cars blasted their horns back at me, I assume thinking a was beeping them from a scooter or something!!!

They honk real bad in the wet when the rotor and pad aren't bedded in well.

Attack the rotor with something rough to remove the pad residue. Then re-bed the pads in doing the old 'climb hill then several hard stops' bedding in technique.

pads alignment is usually the culprit, if it's a tiny bit off even if it doesn't look it, can squeal horribly.

That and the rotor a little out of true.

Or the pads are contaminated.

Or possessed.

Will take a look tomorrow, cheers all!

Or are in fact, cantis.

*You're a canti.

Facking caanti!

Isn't the TRP Spyre can be considered a cantilevers?

the arm is cantilevered between two pads, and pulled by the middle, so technically, wouldn't it be a cantilevers disc calipers?

an canti.

FTFY

Arrghhhh

Stop being a canti, Ed.

Thank you, I do feel a little spyrely

How incredible to be able to stop when you want, whether or not you've just ridden through a puddle or whatever, without the sound of your rims wearing away, or just nothing happening. Fantastic.

Sounds like the coaster brake I have.

Is there a quality coaster brake that actually works well? Like rohloff is for internal gears or sun dynamo hubs. A sort of deluxe coaster brake hub, (probably german or swiss...)

I've a 3 speed Sachs T3, sometimes called a Spectro I think, that's is ah maze ing.