muzzman1
Active member
On my 2019 Levo, right where my brake line enters the lower chainstay, I noticed the paint was bubbling up.
My bike has been sitting for the last 5 weeks while my wrist recovers from a fracture that was a result of coming up short on a double (The "crash" happened on my Kenevo, not this bike)
I am all healed up and ready to get back out, so I wanted to go over the bike to make sure all is well. I've ridden over 3000 miles since Feb, so it get a lot of hard use.
I flipped the bike over and saw the pic below.
This explains why I needed to bleed the brakes every couple weeks. Here I thought I just sucked at bleeding them.
I looked at showroom bikes and they are the same, in that there's no grommet protecting the line.
@Specialized Rider Care What can I do to prevent this in the future?
This is a safety concern right? My rear brake completely failed at one point a couple months ago, and I just chalked it up to my bad bleeding skills. Turns out that's not the case.
TL;DR, Has anyone else had a rear brake line get cut as a result of rubbing the frame where the line enters the chain stay?
This pic was taken with the bike upside down.
My bike has been sitting for the last 5 weeks while my wrist recovers from a fracture that was a result of coming up short on a double (The "crash" happened on my Kenevo, not this bike)
I am all healed up and ready to get back out, so I wanted to go over the bike to make sure all is well. I've ridden over 3000 miles since Feb, so it get a lot of hard use.
I flipped the bike over and saw the pic below.
This explains why I needed to bleed the brakes every couple weeks. Here I thought I just sucked at bleeding them.
I looked at showroom bikes and they are the same, in that there's no grommet protecting the line.
@Specialized Rider Care What can I do to prevent this in the future?
This is a safety concern right? My rear brake completely failed at one point a couple months ago, and I just chalked it up to my bad bleeding skills. Turns out that's not the case.
TL;DR, Has anyone else had a rear brake line get cut as a result of rubbing the frame where the line enters the chain stay?
This pic was taken with the bike upside down.
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