For anybody watching this tutorial: Instead of removing the wheels and using the bleed block, take a piece of paper and stick it between the pad and rotor on each side. Reverse bleed the brakes, and you're done. You also no longer need to re-center the calipers since they're already centered when you start. It works great. Happy trails!
I bled my brakes twice like this method and still get bubbles when I lever bleed and I’m maxed out on my reach, also when I lever bleed the fluid comes out black still, but when I did a full bleed I made sure it was all clean but black keeps popping back up somehow
Nice comprehensive rundown, maybe you can follow this up with the SRAM brakes that some of us run too. I have AVID,s and would like to see that one covered too if possible?
Nothing about centering the caliper once fitted? How do you know? + Surly the pistons need resetting as you've pushed them back. This is probably the most important part to brakes surly to make sure everything is central and centered with no binding. Great vid but missing half off the job if a customer jumped straight on that bike it'll slam straight into a tree.
Not to forget that he kept touching the contact surfaces of the pads and rotor with bare hands, where might be oil residue or mineral oil, contaminating the braking surfaces. A good way to ruin your pads.
@@MountainBikeActionMagazine Well hes kinda right. His hands block what he is demonstrating which is bad camera work for a how-to-video. I woulndt say terrible.
This is a good reason for me to stay with my older Trek carbonfiber frame road bike that has clencher brakes and tubed tires.
For anybody watching this tutorial:
Instead of removing the wheels and using the bleed block, take a piece of paper and stick it between the pad and rotor on each side. Reverse bleed the brakes, and you're done.
You also no longer need to re-center the calipers since they're already centered when you start. It works great. Happy trails!
I bled my brakes twice like this method and still get bubbles when I lever bleed and I’m maxed out on my reach, also when I lever bleed the fluid comes out black still, but when I did a full bleed I made sure it was all clean but black keeps popping back up somehow
This dude is the man!
Nice comprehensive rundown, maybe you can follow this up with the SRAM brakes that some of us run too. I have AVID,s and would like to see that one covered too if possible?
Nothing about centering the caliper once fitted? How do you know? + Surly the pistons need resetting as you've pushed them back. This is probably the most important part to brakes surly to make sure everything is central and centered with no binding. Great vid but missing half off the job if a customer jumped straight on that bike it'll slam straight into a tree.
Not to forget that he kept touching the contact surfaces of the pads and rotor with bare hands, where might be oil residue or mineral oil, contaminating the braking surfaces. A good way to ruin your pads.
Terrible camera work
Thanks means a lot to us from your 4 subscriber youtube channel with 5 videos over the last 7 years.
@@MountainBikeActionMagazine Well hes kinda right. His hands block what he is demonstrating which is bad camera work for a how-to-video. I woulndt say terrible.