how do you know which ones to buy? Or are they a one size fits all

​@nonspecificnonsense6780 There are lots of different sizes. You should just take one of the pads off, then take it into the bike shop, and then they should be able to give you the new ones.

It is not that cheap in where I live

Buy a new bike mate. (Joking)

I might try this, my back brake went put the other day, havent looked at it yet, but if I can fix it ill fix it😊

Thanks, for sure do not inhale any hazardous chemicals. 👍

Fire + brake cleaner = mustard gas

​@@conor1423worse even tbh

Bro i smelled it every time in my garage because i like the smell

​@@conor1423fire? I use it every time to start my car if it wont start

You say it as if it was just pouring water on the pads and rotors then you're good to go when in reality if you do this with regular soap you'll become part of the asphalt or trail that you're riding in. It's important to use the apropriate products and ensure that everything is resurfaced and decontaminated (not "cleaned") properly. One thing that's bad about this short is that he doesn't say what grit he used, wich is important because if you go too coarse you'll damage your rotors, and if you go too fine you'll polish the surface and the pads won't bite properly anymore, meaning that there's not enough friction for them to heat up and deposit the coat on the rotors that actually grips the pads (wich is the reason why pads need to be beded in)

Did this today on the largest descent in my region and it worked 100%. Did one brake at a time too.

​Don't do this all the time, because your rotor will get heat damage and even a brand new bad will have no stopping power

From my personal experience, that is a TERRIBLE idea, it has worked for me to do it over a prolonged period of time but it's almost impossible to do that in a singular run. If your brakes heat up enough to do that in a singular go you need larger rotors ASAP before brake fade straight up MURDERS you, because if you're unprepared it will. Please do not take brake health lightly.

Clean the disc and replace the pad. I’ve tried the going down hills applying the brake etc. Does. Not. Work.

@@johntheman2006it works if you just need to bed them in. The heat won’t remove contaminants so it’ll just glaze the pads. This process in video is great though except you need to bed them before shredding

Can u help I tried this mine still don’t work the disc is still 1.9 mm and the brake pads are still thick but don’t brake powerful enough

​@@BeerKemps clean and sand them, after that you need to "bed in" the breaks by repeating several (20x) accelerations with moderate breaking to increase temperature and then making full hard stops (10x). Let t cool down and it will be good to go.

Keep in mind that after doing this you'll have to bed in your pads again, so make sure to go to a controlled space to do so

My guy, fire is fire, doesn’t matter where it’s coming from, it’s the fuel that matters and they both use the same fuel

Glad it was helpful!

Nah, i bet it isn't as loud as the aliexpress pads i had on my Lapierre XD. The whole neighbourhood new i was round because it sounded like someone was blasting a trumpet with a stadium horn

No worries, hope you sort it out

Проблема не только в звуке, они хуже тормозят колесо когда на тормозах масло

I have done that and it's amazing to see people freak out from the bike lane when you're just chillin slow, brake a little and see them react like a truck is moving at 9000 MPH towards them. Even funnier when they're being jackasses walking on the bike lane and they don't hear you coming, 8/10 times they jump back to the sidewalk inmediately

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very bad idea :D

he was using WD40?

He was using a degreaser made by WD40@@halfglassfull

​@@halfglassfullto be clear, it is NOT DW40, it was made by the same brand. Do NOT use WD40 on your brakes, it will be your first, and your last time doing it

Try the steps here, it could help 👍

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Lol

@@RidesWithJake Definitely not my brightest moment.

I ride in San Francisco, and most of the time I ride down really steep streets and get up to 35mph sometimes. I knew the discs were hot one day and decided to quickly touch the ridge of the disk and it was definitely hot 😅

Fuck around and find out moments lmao

I also did that, and my brakes are also contaminated, I don't know how to remove the pads though

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Ah thanks

hahaha

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Nah, Hydraulic gang rise up!

Lol

Rim brakes and tubes, not tubeless. Like Back to the Future .

Thanks Krishna

Thanks champ 👍

Yeah, that was the plan until we can buy replacement pads (out of stock everywhere at that time). But forgot about it and still using the same set of pads 1 year later.

That doesn’t work I’ve tried it many times. The method in the video is the only one that’s ever worked for me

I feel the soap also would absorb into the pads leaving less friction in the end. But i dont think he had to soak them either, but rather a wipe of the stuff to conserve

You should never use dish soap on the brake pads. Spirit is the best things to clean. You can soak in it. And change your pads to the resin one, never squiks to me.

Contaminants like the dish soap you used? Bruh you must've crashed and hit your head on the previous incident with your brakes XD

​@@vladivanov7645resin pads are silent yes, but the people that this video is directed at will most likely not ride anything that isn't sinthetic, resin or organic. There's a lot of low end brakes that don't have neither semi-metallic, metallic or ceramic pads available due to said brakes only being used with lower end rotors anyways, wich would get torn appsrt even by semi metallic ones.

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Gotta love the shorties

Lol on a clean rotor yes

😂I really don't know what the previous owner of the bike was thinking (and my dad for buying the bike). The grease is really as thick as the drivetrain's

This is the way

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😂😂😂

Yeah nowadays i’ll get a new one

+200 to speed

Haha, hopefully 8 year old Timmy that just got his first mountain bike doesn't see this

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Or use kerosene and diesel for making them for trash

It was an 800grit sand paper if I remember correctly, I only lightly scuffed it, and removed some surface rust at the same time.

Yeah mine was the same before, it took a couple of tries like 5x. I think its time for new pads, and thoroughly clean the rotors

Hahaha,

Interesting, somethings keep contaminating your brakes?

True that

True that

I did use a regular car brake cleaner, it's much stronger which is needed for this heavily contaminated brakes.

Yeah, you need to. And you have to search the pads based on which brakes you have.

Well, alternatively you can dismount the caliper from the fork

Yeah absolutely

It was fine for me, some people use a blowtorch, and I sand it afterwards

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Oh, I would check the brake pads to make sure it still have plenty of material. It shouldn't have any lines on it that you can feel with your finger nails.

@@RidesWithJake just checked you can see the lines but some how not have nail catch on any of it (not feel with nail?)

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It might need some bedding in if they’re new

They’re

@@RidesWithJake Mines aren’t even greasy nor dirt. Bike is fairly new. Maybe 2-3 months old and the front break hardly does anything. So dangerous.

Thanks! Its a bigger brother, the old N7

oohhh cool!@@RidesWithJake

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Calipers? Probably need new pads and/or rotors 😀

I had to redo the brake cleaner soak like 3x before I completely get rid of the squeaking and got the full power back. If you can easily find a new set of pads, that's probably easier.

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​@@RidesWithJakefr I don't use your foot like a man 🗿

Real men know how to spell. "breaks"?

Its worth giving a try, this looked like it was sprayed with wd40 repeatedlly multiple times. The grease is quite thick

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Yeah that’s a good , depends if its in good condition

@@RidesWithJake i already bought it and the front disc brake rubs and bit and the highest gear on the derailer is kinda skiipy but other from that its awsome.

Can't remember I believe it was 400grit if you have something rougher, just sand lightly, you just have to scuff it up.

@@RidesWithJake alright thank you

Good on you 👍

@@RidesWithJake btw i gotta tell ya i got no hate on disc brakes and drum brakes and deffenetly no hate on u cuz i actualy love ur videos🔥💯

How and what pads did you destroy by heating them up? Because you should probably NEVER use anything from that brand again or use something that isn't a welding torch, theese things NEED to hold up to heat, if they failed like that i'd be glad they didn't fail while i was on the bike, not even mad that i gotta go buy a different pair

Hahaha Dad bought it from a kid, and we’re wondering about that too, seems like it was literally sprayed with lube

I did this 😂 and idk how to fix it

​@@mysterious_man7673remove Tire, remove pads, buy New pads, give some Isopropanol on a towel and on the disk Brake and brakes so that everything come off. The put the New pads in the Brakes and install the tired again 👍

Sorry to hear that, it might be time for new pads.

try $40 for many road bikes with Shimano or SRAM.

Oh no, that’s not good

littereraly same. maybe i should replace the rotors idk

It’s a used bike we bought during Covid

Yup

Yeah, all fine, until you're down the slope and your brakes take a vacation, one for them to not work and one for you away from living

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​@@RidesWithJake Hello I used the rubbing alcohol in the rotor/disc breaks and it worked but it still remains the same so am I need to clean my brake pads?

Ah yes, thanks, I left the brake cleaner an hour, before burning the oil off

You can use alcohol to dissolve the oil

You mean rim brakes? Because we mostly stopped using thoose for multiple reasons, like a bent rim being catastrophic, the pads melting away under constant stress and hydraulic brakes being stronger in general.

@@Ferrari255GTO Only Freds stopped using those, lol. Sorry dude. If you have weak hands and can't use bike brakes there are several pushup variations that can fix that without spending any money.

@@___Bebo___ no, i have a 200mm fork that provides more grip than thoose brakes can handle

@@Ferrari255GTO You have weak hands my guy sorry to break it to you. I barely have to squeeze to get a perfectly modulated non skip stop on my Dura Ace calipers and pads.

@@___Bebo___ broken cables would like to disagree with you

Weight, heat dissipation etc

@@RidesWithJake i see, make sense

Haha I wouldn’t recommend it as it has oils, but i usually use a car shampoo without any issues

Oh no.

You should have degreased them instead.

Sorry to hear that, sometimes you have to do it multiple times or time for new pads.

Been using the same brake pads and rotors for the past year, stops the bike just fine even on really steep trails

@@RidesWithJake Interesting.

@@rupanjolikakoty3103 yeah but took a couple of tries for it to bite properly. Now that supplies are back to normal, I would just buy new one. And honestly I hope I don’t have to deal with this ever again, or if I buy a trash bike I just replace the brake pads straight away 😅

@@RidesWithJake Yeah, contamination is nasty. I'm currently having it on front from some kind of soap after washing the bike last week. Heated the rotor, rubbed with sand paper and IPA. I installed new pads. Still lacking the same bite I had previously.