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Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 09:31:37 No.2065530 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2065555

>hydraulic disk brakes would have prevented this edition
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Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 13:33:04 No.2065539 Report

Quoted By: >>2065541

>>2065460
>I can access a place that's basically a charity(sort of) bike repair group that's run out of a small brick warehouse unit
And by the looks of it, they've closed down in the last month and a half. The last bike shop I even know of that isn't that one incredibly shitty chain store is now even further away and even harder to get to by public transportation. We're hitting levels of JUST that shouldn't even be possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 14:00:22 No.2065541 Report

Quoted By: >>2065544 >>2065547 >>2065560

>>2065539
turns out that there's no way to run a business when your aspiring customers regard replacing a ruined $20 wheel with a new $50 wheel as a hardship

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 15:27:07 No.2065544 Report

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>>2065541
>spokes loosen
>wheel ruined
nigga wtf

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 16:13:14 No.2065545 Report

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Who is responsible for making both 200mm rotors and 203mm rotors?
Why is every industry fucked with constant bullshit where you have to have special parts, there's nothing truly standard. Just a bunch of proprietary shit. 130mm skewers, 135mm skewers, different bell ends. Press fit BB, different size BBs with slight differences
It's all too much. I'm just gonna pay the extra $, fix my shit and ride my bike. Sorry not sorry

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 16:18:26 No.2065547 Report

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>>2065541
That same wheel cost me 50 back in September.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 19:06:09 No.2065555 Report

Quoted By: >>2065556 >>2065573 >>2065605

>>2065530
There is this I don't get, I have 622x32c tires with mechanical disk brakes and the rear wheel skid all the time, so I use the front one as gently as possible, that said, isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill? at least for thin tires

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 19:33:01 No.2065556 Report

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>>2065555
well for one thing rims with a braking surface are objectively worse and wear out faster. for another hydraulics have much better modulation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 19:51:24 No.2065559 Report

Quoted By: >>2065605

622mm rotors > 160mm rotors

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 20:13:40 No.2065560 Report

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>>2065541
Oy vey! He should be buying a whole new bike!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 01:01:49 No.2065573 Report

Quoted By: >>2065574

>>2065555
>, isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill
yes, but you'll never convince anyone in that cult.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 02:15:22 No.2065574 Report

Quoted By: >>2065578

>>2065573
you don't ride anything but perfectly flat and paved surfaces I see

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 02:44:44 No.2065578 Report

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>>2065574
no, I ride all kinds of shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 02:53:51 No.2065579 Report

Quoted By: >>2065583

I like how easy hydro brakes are to use.
I have a hydraulic brake bike and a rim brakes bike

Discs for dirt
Rim for road

Simple as

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 06:37:50 No.2065583 Report

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>>2065579
it's almost like some sort of 3rd party would like to provoke divisiveness... couldn't be any of the many global south actors of course

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 19:29:34 No.2065605 Report

Quoted By: >>2065610

>>2065555
>isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill
no they're awesome, even for brake feel, ease and modulation alone.
also always use both brakes.
>>2065559
yeah, until said big rotor gets covered in snow/ice/dirt/mud because of it's proximity to the ground

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 23:33:11 No.2065610 Report

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>>2065605
>yeah, until said big rotor gets covered in snow/ice/dirt/mud because of it's proximity to the ground
I run rim brakes and because the dogshit stopgap wheel I slotted in is painted, it stutters wildly and even when it doesnt has severe drop in braking performance when it's wet. my shitty 10$ chink disc brakes aren't good and NEVER offer good braking performance, but have NEVER dropped below that level of "barely adequate to keep me from getting killed" no matter how much snow and salt gets in there

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 01:17:05 No.2065613 Report

Quoted By: >>2065616

Rim brakes would be fine if they didn’t destroy your wheels. Wheel manufacturers need to make replaceable brake strips that can be attached to the wheels. Until then I’m using discs.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 01:33:28 No.2065616 Report

Quoted By: >>2065618 >>2065619 >>2065620

>>2065613
>Rim brakes would be fine if they didn’t destroy your wheels.
Explain how rubber bushings squeezed by hand can "destroy" a steel wheel?

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:02:04 No.2065618 Report

Quoted By: >>2065623

>>2065616
Have you ever rode a bicycle

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:04:02 No.2065619 Report

Quoted By: >>2065622

>>2065616
nta but wearing down rims to the point they can fail isn't uncommon at all, it just takes a while. its why you should clean the rim track very often and make sure theres no small debris or dirt embedded in the pads themselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:05:39 No.2065620 Report

Quoted By: >>2065622

>>2065616
is this bait, also most rims are aluminum alloy

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:16:45 No.2065621 Report

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I have a carbon bike, an accident caused some paint to chip on my frame, I color matched the paint from the manufacturer but I need to clear coat it after too.

What should I clear coat my frame with? Just an acrylic clear coat? What do they spray on most bike frames to protect the paint?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:17:56 No.2065622 Report

Quoted By: >>2065624

>>2065620
>>2065619
actually that asshole, but i've gone through a lot of parts lately; way more than I used to before getting back into cycling.

>>2065619
>clean the rim track very often
I did this, and it worked until I installed a stopgap front wheel off a bike that has painted rims. actually surprisingly, water and snow have nowhere to go so the rim brakes with cheap brake shoes do very poorly in wet and/or freezing conditions. I am unwilling to trade out the wheel because i am a poorfag.

>>2065620
fair, every wheel in my possession is probably aluminum but still. the >IMPLICATION is that the metal would somehow warp or otherwise fail, which is unrealistic under clamping with rubber brake shoes. I have observed this winter that heat is important but the brakes do not generate enough heat to do any damage to the rim; the rim is not reaching even 100. but the shoes do need to at least be above around -5C to work at all

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:20:42 No.2065623 Report

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>>2065618
my wheels do not look like this because the factory coated them in enamel paint like some kind of asshole and are mostly smooth under that. or at least my front doesn't, barring some parts where the paint wore off a nd now it's smooth metal. a proper wheel should have channels milled right in to both allow shoddy brakes somewhere to flex into as well as allowing brake shoes at all to bleed off water and ice

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:22:46 No.2065624 Report

Quoted By: >>2065625

>>2065622
its not that brakes put enough force on the rim to do damage its that over time it wears down. i saw a post a month ago about a guy who went into a shop for 5 mins, came out and his rim was a taco. in the pics you could see the brake track was fully worn through. if you have rim brakes it should be part of inspecting your bike for safety

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:26:20 No.2065625 Report

Quoted By: >>2065626

>>2065624
>rubber brake shoes never wear out
>an aluminum wheel, though, oy vey, you need a new whole wheel every season!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:29:16 No.2065626 Report

Quoted By:

>>2065625
I’m not making my nice wheels a disposable item just to be a hipster fag.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 03:01:03 No.2065629 Report

Quoted By: >>2065630

I've been riding rim brakes my whole life and never wore out a rim, but I haven't been riding the same bike the whole time. anon who actually has worn through rims posted this

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 03:08:34 No.2065630 Report

Quoted By:

>>2065629
most rims you'll find worn through are neglected more than used so its the brake pad being totally worn down and scoring the metal causing it to wear much faster

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 03:54:58 No.2065634 Report

Quoted By:

Ive worn a set of rims before, with fairly good maintenance too. but it wont just happen overnight.
OTOH ive seen a boatload of rims bowed out or crack in da shop

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