Re: noob questions :)
- From: Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:53:56 +0100
in message <qUsog.221032$eZ1.120186@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, KoperniK
('kopernik@xxxxxxxxxx') wrote:
After 31 years of sofa-surfing I finally decided that exercise might be
a good thing. I bought a Terrago Disc 06 and went straight in at the
deep end and have been doing a round trip of 30 miles a day for the
last month in and out of work on and around the Alban Way.
A stone and a half later with an immunity to nettle stings and dog sh*t
impregnated in the skin of my lower legs, I've got a couple of
questions I hope you can help me with!
1/ As 75% of my daily journey is on the flat or mild inclines, I rarely
come out of the 3 highest gears and am finding the highest gear is not
high enough - is there a way I can get the gears altered to provide
more of a challenge or do I have to buy a new set of gears?
You can easily alter your gearing, by fitting larger chainrings or else a
cassette with smaller sprockets. However, what other people have said
about learning to spin is also good advice.
2/ I have hydraulic disc brakes but they are howling when I brake too
hard - what needs doing to fix this as supposedly they don't need
oiling.
Hydraulic disks tend to be noisy. To reduce the noise, make sure they're
as clean as possible - clean the disks with alcohol. Definitely don't
let oil get anywhere near them, as it will make the problem worse and
also stop them working. Also, if there's a risk that your brake pads may
be contaminated (especially with oil), take them out and clean them with
alcohol, too. Meths will do.
The other thing is to brake hard a couple of times early in a journey. In
my experience disks get quieter when they've been used hard. Whether
it's because braking hard cleans the surface or because they're quieter
when they've warmed up a bit I don't know - but if you go out with a
bunch of people mountain biking the first ten minutes tend to be
enlivened by the happy squalling of disk brakes, and after that they
quieten down.
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