When you put the new pads on, do the bed in. 😊
Braking performance of SRAM DB8 Stealth brakes
- Thread starter tonyride
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Yep
Don't torture yourself. Organic pads should be illegal. Just swap to metallic right off the bat.
depends on use case, metallic compounds like being hot to work right.
tonyride
Don't piss off the red guy
Metallic pads on order.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Are you gonna put them into different brakes?
tonyride
Don't piss off the red guy
Nope, not yet anyway.
Purl
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My wife’s Mach 6 came with the DB8’s and they are the strongest set of brakes I’ve ever touched. Small pull and I’m getting thrown out the front door. I have 4 piston xt’s on my bikes and i would take those DB8’s any day of the week for power. They were a pain in the ass to bed in correctly. We ride Clayton a lot and took about 5-6 laps down tobboggan each brake to bed them in good.
they paywall popped up just when they were getting to the point ....I just read a long article on bedding in brakes. Apparently there’s a procedure that you’re supposed to follow
Threaded #44: Disc brake bed-in, a crucial, often missed step
A common answer to those noisy, shuddery, and inconsistent disc brakes.escapecollective.com
It’s the only paywall I actually pay. This is far and away the best cycling news and gear review site out there. No advertising- they make all their $ on subscriptions.
tonyride
Don't piss off the red guy
I hate when they do that. Plenty of videos on YT on how to do it though.
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They always leave out that critical last step that the Escape Collective went into detail about.
tonyride
Don't piss off the red guy
They're all in cahoots. That must be it.
Of all the bikes I've owned this is the first time I'm running into this problem. Bedding (or being able to) is not the issue, it's the combination of using organic pads and using them at the bike park. Didn't have any issues with my last bike park rig which is just an older version of what I have now and it had metallic pads. I should have known this to be the issue from the beginning. I'm putting the bedding issue to bed.
Of all the bikes I've owned this is the first time I'm running into this problem. Bedding (or being able to) is not the issue, it's the combination of using organic pads and using them at the bike park. Didn't have any issues with my last bike park rig which is just an older version of what I have now and it had metallic pads. I should have known this to be the issue from the beginning. I'm putting the bedding issue to bed.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
For real right now. No one has ever bedded in their brakes, ever.
Just buy this
Sinter Smart Bedding Machine
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Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Just buy this
Sinter Smart Bedding Machine
Please Enquire for Dealer PricingThe Sinter Smart Bedding Machine will save your technicians time and money all while preparing new pads for the ultimate in braking performance from the first pull of the levers. With a wide variety of different brake pads, brake systems and rotors on the market...
Now that we're owned by a big brand, they make us share the same hex key set amongst all of the shops to save money. But they bought a fleet of trucks and hired drivers to move the hex key set around.
zmartene
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God Bless Capitalism! I bet the shareholders are happy about the cost savings on silly things like tools. But the branding on all those trucks - it's practically free advertising!
Still privately owned. Imagine how bad it could be if publicly traded.