Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

These are the exact symptoms I had with a leaky Shimano calliper. See if it happens again with new pads.

The bad pads were in the front originally, I swapped them to the back.

If the calliper were leaking I'd expect the front to be crap again - but the problem stayed with the rear pads, regenerating over night.

Maybe the front pads were contaminated when the brakes were assembled? i.e. they got leaked on, but things are not leaking now, however the mineral oil is seeping back to the surface of the pad overnight having been burnt off during the day? IDK.

Sorry, my mistake - 24”

The rear pads have become shit again over night

Calliper is leaking :(

Have you contaminated the rear by touching the disc while fettling the gears?

Calliper is leaking :(

Surely, if the calliper was leaking, then the shitness would stay local to one calliper, rather than following the pads?

Have you considered pads against leaking?

What's their μ value?

Uh yeah.

Magnets must be involved somehow

Had a quick go on the Scalpel tonight - fixed! Looks like I got the rear pads hot enough yesterday to evict the demon.

Also, n+1.

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Although I think it's broken, as I can't immediately do amazing tricks.

Well that was unexpected

Actual lol

hoooooleeeeee shit. I want one

What are peoples recommendations for a decent little backpack that can take a bladder, a couple of layers, some tools etc, but not be too obtrusive?

A backpack seems a little overkill for riding your BMX to the local sweetshop

You clearly have no idea how many sweets I can get through

Another question - how much do people adjust their suspension whilst riding?

I did ~60k of the SDW on Monday and found myself changing the rear shock between firm and trail quite a lot - based on whether I was climbing or descending at the time. I left the fork in trail (of firm/trail/open) most of the time, but switched it to firm for the (brief) road sections.

I forgot to unlock today on the full blue run on swinley ..

I'm turning over in my head retro-fitting a remote lever to swap between climb/trail/descend (as I now discover Fox call the three positions).

I see you've witnessed the skills of @youramericanlover today :-)

That's always going to depend on your frame kinematics and shock tbh

Yeah. He mad.

Enthusiasm does not equal skill but it got me around.

I don't know if any of you realise this but apparently MTB technology has developed a fair bit since 1991.

O rly

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