Go Back   Cycling Forums » Bikes » Mountain Bikes
Mountain Bikes Down Hill - Hard Tail - Mountain Bike Racing - Fat Tyers - Mountain Bike Riding or training - bring all your mountain bike chat here.













giant mph brakes

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 07-07.-2009
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1
Rep Power: 0
jayswood is on a distinguished road
Default giant mph brakes

Hi all.

This is my first post so please bear with me if i don't get things quite right.

I have a giant terago which has done about 5000 km in that time the front brake caliper has stopped releasing.

The brakes are the hydraulic MPH type.

Is there a simple spring that releases the breaks or is it that I need to add additional fluid.

The bike is well looked after and cleaned every week so I hope it's not dirt ingress into the caliper.

Thanks for your help
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 07-08.-2009
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,818
Rep Power: 7
alfeng is on a distinguished road
Default Re: giant mph brakes

If you know how to bleed our brake lines, then for the time being, swap the rear caliper for the front, and vice versa ...

I think one recommendation is to service them every year-or-two, so at 5000 km, your brakes are probably due.

The techique for bleeding the brakes varies, so you'll have to look it up on the respective website.

As far as adding more brake line fluid, different brand calipers use different fluids ... none are compatible; so, you'll need to look up that info, too!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Tags
brakes, giant, mph

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:19 AM.

Powered by: vBulletin Copyright © 2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0
Copyright © 2001 - 2009 cyclingforums.com

Translations (powered by Google):
Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Spanish Swedish