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Peter Clinch
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Ian Smith wrote:
> Lower maintenance. My disk-equipped road-going bike requires about 3
> hands fewer to adjust, and 4 hands fewer to change, the brake pads.
> Even were I equipped with that many hands, the disks would still be
> easier to change and adjust pads.
That's not intrinsic to discs though. To change the pads on HS 33s you
unplug the old one and plug in a new one. To adjust them you twirl the
adjustment wheel on the lever.
Other points quite true though.
Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
> Lower maintenance. My disk-equipped road-going bike requires about 3
> hands fewer to adjust, and 4 hands fewer to change, the brake pads.
> Even were I equipped with that many hands, the disks would still be
> easier to change and adjust pads.
That's not intrinsic to discs though. To change the pads on HS 33s you
unplug the old one and plug in a new one. To adjust them you twirl the
adjustment wheel on the lever.
Other points quite true though.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/