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Mike Kennedy
Guest
I got my bike back from the LBS Wednesday with my new Avid mechanical
disk brakes installed.
Yesterday I had a meeting with one of the local cyclocross folks to discuss
setting up a course
around the "dog park" over by Fort Boise, so I decided to take the mtb. and
check out these brakes.
It was an awesome day with near perfect temperatures, I guess around 73deg.
I rode from my house up to the Corrals and then on over to trail 1,
Freeway and then to Military
Reserve trails. It was one of the few times this season that I did not have
lot's of dust kicking up
on the ride, I guess all the rain we have had since last Sunday took care of
that. Boy between 5:30
and 6:00pm must be prime time for group mountain biking, I must have passed
7 separate groups
of 5 or more heading out just by Fort Boise alone.
Well these brakes work so much better then the old CODA hydraulics,
however for the first
hour or so I was going insane from all the squealing. Man they made me wish
for V brakes. Also
after going through a small creek, the rotors got wet and these things just
about screamed the
first time I applied the brakes. I think I scared off all the wild and not
so wild life within
a 5 mile radius.
The squealing all but went away by the time I got home so hopefully they
are close to being worn in.
And I hope that the water incident was also due to being new and not a
continuing feature. I will
be riding the Hidden Springs trails tonight and if Dry Creek still has
water, I think that I
will ride through it and see what happens.
Mike
disk brakes installed.
Yesterday I had a meeting with one of the local cyclocross folks to discuss
setting up a course
around the "dog park" over by Fort Boise, so I decided to take the mtb. and
check out these brakes.
It was an awesome day with near perfect temperatures, I guess around 73deg.
I rode from my house up to the Corrals and then on over to trail 1,
Freeway and then to Military
Reserve trails. It was one of the few times this season that I did not have
lot's of dust kicking up
on the ride, I guess all the rain we have had since last Sunday took care of
that. Boy between 5:30
and 6:00pm must be prime time for group mountain biking, I must have passed
7 separate groups
of 5 or more heading out just by Fort Boise alone.
Well these brakes work so much better then the old CODA hydraulics,
however for the first
hour or so I was going insane from all the squealing. Man they made me wish
for V brakes. Also
after going through a small creek, the rotors got wet and these things just
about screamed the
first time I applied the brakes. I think I scared off all the wild and not
so wild life within
a 5 mile radius.
The squealing all but went away by the time I got home so hopefully they
are close to being worn in.
And I hope that the water incident was also due to being new and not a
continuing feature. I will
be riding the Hidden Springs trails tonight and if Dry Creek still has
water, I think that I
will ride through it and see what happens.
Mike