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In the same boat with Rival 1, I'm not sure if the reach screw is slowly unwinding - otherwise am out of ideas.
On the noise, I found that checking alignment and following a bedding in procedure helped a little but the front is nearly always bad when wet - likely related to contaminants off the road. The front brake gets hosed in crap, possibly from the mudguards.
spinnnout
KarlMarx
Hello,
I have SRAM Rival Hydro on a Canyon. I've had it about 2/3 years and for this whole time, the brakes squeal like HELL in the wet. I have tried keeping rotors immaculately clean, changing pads, using different types of pad but the result is always the same. It's a horrid noise that's embarrassing if you're riding down a busy street in the wet, giving everybody a fright. It's a cruel trick that in occasions when you need braking power the most, you're at your most reticent to use it... any tips on that front?
Additionally, in the past year or so, the front lever gets incredibly spongy and eventually becomes easy to pull right back to the drop. The pads have been changed and LBS confirmed the system doesn't need bleeding, they just adjusted the reach and told me to crack on. But about 2-3 months down the line, the lever is in the same position as it was. Braking on the front is therefore middling at best.
Would appreciate some input, am hoping to transplant the groupset and brakes onto a new bike so be nice to get over some of these niggles when that happens. Thanks!