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I find you have to bleed the brakes with the freestroke screw at mid point to get meaningful adjustment.
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ah ok, this is kinda what I've found with my sram codes.
The official sram instruction says rotate the contact adjuster all the way in the opposite direction of the arrow. But if you do that then once the bleed is finished the dial is at its maximum setting and you can only adjust it making the lever come closer the bar. Which is the exact opposite of what you'd want.
Bleeding it with the adjuster set half way in the direction of the arrow gives it a more meaningful adjustment. I've never understood how the official sram instructions can be wrong!
@Dogs do you have contact point adjustment on your sram brakes? Is this your experience too?
TotalShanner
I always wondered about the free stroke adjust on shimano, I could never get it to do what I thought it was supposed to! The last set of xt's I had, it honestly didn't seem to do anything at all no matter where I set it to.
Even the contact point adjuster on sram codes doesn't work the way you'd expect. You have to set it in the opposite direction of what the manual says for it to have any meaningful effect...