I just got a new set of brakes and put them on the bike last week. I trimmed the hoses to fit, installed the new olive and clamped everything together with the compression nut. Seems simple enough and all the other brakes I've played with use the same concept, just with slightly different parts. After bedding the pads in, I went for a nice hard ride on them. The brakes were great...
Well, last night I was tooling around the neighborhood with my son and pulled hard on the rear brake to lock up the wheel. I pulled harder than I would under normal riding conditions, but don't think it was any harder than I would potentially pull in a panic stop situation. Well, the hose blew right out of the compression fitting.
My question is, what could I possibly have done wrong or what could have caused this? Are there specific things to check for when you're trimming hoses that aren't so obvious?
I dropped a note to the company's tech support basically asking the same thing. I don't want to openly post the brakes here as I don't want to sway people's opinions on them since it was probably my fault... and they're more or less a sponsor.
Well, last night I was tooling around the neighborhood with my son and pulled hard on the rear brake to lock up the wheel. I pulled harder than I would under normal riding conditions, but don't think it was any harder than I would potentially pull in a panic stop situation. Well, the hose blew right out of the compression fitting.
My question is, what could I possibly have done wrong or what could have caused this? Are there specific things to check for when you're trimming hoses that aren't so obvious?
I dropped a note to the company's tech support basically asking the same thing. I don't want to openly post the brakes here as I don't want to sway people's opinions on them since it was probably my fault... and they're more or less a sponsor.