Thanks for the advise, what is it that's actually causing the squealing? water? dampness? it seems so random on the ride, but once it starts its bloody awful other riders don't want to come out with me lol.This stuff works: disc brake silencer by Swissstop. But it is expensive.
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Buy the small aerosol can. A little goes a very long way. I suspect the big can is for race teams or maybe motorbikes.
Shake the can well, shake it again! All the metal particles in the can may have settled during storage. If you have any doubt, shake it again!
Remove the pads, clean them up, place face up on a flat surface. Shake the can and give a half second spray with the aerosol. It comes out black and dries quickly to a dark silver. Refit the pads and go bed them in.
Beware! The pads will have zero stopping power at your first pull. Keep at it and once you start to feel some bite, things will improve rapidly.
This product also stops brake vibration, which is what I bought it for. (Vibration/squeal, normally one causes the other).
I think so riding for a while while slight onthdn aggressive braking.. Repeat until noise stops.Could be a number of reason but in the UK its pretty much a forgone conclusion if riding int he wet and crap they will start to get noisy - if you are heavy on the brakes and its wet it can get pretty loud as the rotor heats up.
Presume you bedded in the pads correctly?
Any noise is caused by vibration, which is mainly some sort of stop-start friction. I had a Kona Dawg Supreme that had the mother and father of squealing. Coming down the mountain sounded like a car was descending with the horn full on. The whole bike was shaking as though something was seriously out of balance. I tried everything, and I mean everything. I did all the usual stuff, then asked the MBR Forum (now defunct) and tried all their ideas. Then I logged onto the Kona Tech centre and tried all their stuff. I was corresponding directly with the Kona Tech guy. I noticed that the component on my bike that the rear calliper bolted to was a lighter version of the standard Kona, so I replaced it with the heavier version. When I was in the French Alps it was particularly troublesome and I consulted three different bike shops. Two had seen the problem before, one of them had a Kona that had the problem, the third guy had heard of it. None of them could fix it. I had to hire a bike for the rest of my week in the Alps. I had already tried swapping complete brake sets with my other bike and it still did it, which led me to believe that it might be the discs that were warped or ridged. So I fitted different discs (I'd already tried sanding down the discs, pads, facing the calliper mounts etc). Nothing fixed it!Thanks for the advise, what is it that's actually causing the squealing? water? dampness? it seems so random on the ride, but once it starts its bloody awful other riders don't want to come out with me lol.
Copaslip? They sell on amazon? Iv herd these sprays and gels work on noise but reduce braking power masively.Squealers.... As above brakes with heat in 'em usually don't squeek. So more noise riding snow!
Check properly bled system, slight air or leak = less power more noise.
Old school motorcyclists tip - lightly coat rear of pad with copaslip. Worked for me on one of my old cycles.
"Nano Technology" designed to lift dirt deposit at the molecular level..................suggests to me it probably also removes the sacrifice layer laid down on rotors by the pads. I would not use any chemically reactive product on a brake calliper/rotor!The only chemicals that touch the rotars is the pink muc off. The whole bike gets a spray with it after each ride.
You put it on the back. You should also do this if you change vehicle brake pads in most circumstances. Or Ceramic grease if you have it - thought it costs about 100x more and your brakes shouldn't be getting to that temperatureCopaslip? They sell on amazon? Iv herd these sprays and gels work on noise but reduce braking power masively.
I tried the damping of the disc rotors and checked for warped discs too. (just some of the methods a desperate person will try)..........
Taping the alternate disk spokes can reduce it as the tape acts as a damper, but it won't always work.
It can also be slightly warped disks, so check that too.
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