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If you're hitting your flat pedals off everything but don't do the same with clips I can only guess you're struggling with crank/foot positioning, lifting the bike and keeping both feet on.
All of the above require the rider to pre-load flat pedals in advance and whereas clips not so much. Rider weight positioning/shift can also become more important in technical obsticle littered trails on flats.
Also. Are you mainly smashing your rearward pedal?
Yeah this probably. I didn't get more pedal strikes when I went from clips to flats 12 years ago. Second the positioning of your weight/body.
Also to me clips not named shimano DX always lasted shorter because all that was available were crank and time pedals and each one of those had issues but I assume 2022 versions of them are a bit better.
You can also buy the plastic ones when they are on sale and they are between 20-30 €.
Yeah this is why I was a bit ranty about prices. Some things just don't make sense. Flats used to be cheaper than high end clips
You don't need to buy baller flat pedals though. You can still get fookers for $25 on Amazon. The seals aren't as good as chesters but you can just replace the whole pedal every few seasons when the pins are worn at that price and the bearings will still be fine.
#firstworldproblems
Wellgo, VP and HT actually make most of those big brand pedals. You can find decent concave platform pedals with reverse fed pins, bearings and OK seals in their catalogs for less than 50 bucks. You won't get the bling factor, but you'll save a good chunk of cash while just missing a nice logo.
Wellgo, VP and HT actually make most of those big brand pedals. You can find decent concave platform pedals with reverse fed pins, bearings and OK seals in their catalogs for less than 50 bucks. You won't get the bling factor, but you'll save a good chunk of cash while just missing a nice logo.
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"They also have new tools for brake bleeding: Hope will upload files on their website for free, so you can print these parts at home with a 3D printer. "
Hell yeah thats cool. Now I'm off to find someone with a 3D printer
Hell yeah thats cool. Now I'm off to find someone with a 3D printer
Now that's something right with the industry.
Waiting to see more on these new tools..
I never needed any special tools to bleed my T3M4 or E4 brakes. I'm not sure what a "bleed kit" is for. 8mm box wrench, hose and bottle, T10.
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Thats them there. I dunno what the black thingy is, the others are self explanatory. I really like the doohickey that lets you advance one piston for lubing/cleaning etc.
God I wanted them to put a bleed port on the master for the Tech 4. FFS Hope.
It doesn’t work great, air gets trapped at the caliper pistons, doesn’t come out, plus, and this is the real issue, you are fighting gravity and not using any suction. You’ll see they get all hokey with pushing the pistons and spreading them apart again trying to get rid of the caliber bubbles. The bubbles that wouldn’t get trapped in the first place if it wasn’t that bat-shit crazy backwards procedure.
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That single piston advancer block is cool. I don’t know why any of it needs to be 3d printed though.
Because if you own a 3d printer that costs a fraction of a penny to make. Or if your buddy has a printer he'll do it for a beer.
Lulz the procedure for bleeding Hope brakes with a hardware store piece of tubing and a bottle works perfectly. As it does with all car brakes everywhere and all motorcycle brakes everywhere. No fiddlefucking required.
The only modification I make to that procedure is to flush a bunch of fluid through quickly while leaving the bleeder open, then do a few cycles of closing it. I do this once or twice a year on my 5 or 6 year old Hope E4s. There's no air in them. Everybody who tries my bike can't get over how awesome the brakes work and feel.
A year ago I finally replaced the master cylinder seals which took all of 10 minutes and didn't even require a bleed since I just laid the bike on its side for each one and put a couple cc more fluid in before the piston.
The magic behind getting any non-floating 4-piston caliper to feel nice and crisp is in the caliper alignment and piston alignment. 9 times out of 10 people who are excessively trying to bleed out a shitty lever feel are just putting the rotor into 3 point bending and the lever feels like swampass.
The only modification I make to that procedure is to flush a bunch of fluid through quickly while leaving the bleeder open, then do a few cycles of closing it. I do this once or twice a year on my 5 or 6 year old Hope E4s. There's no air in them. Everybody who tries my bike can't get over how awesome the brakes work and feel.
A year ago I finally replaced the master cylinder seals which took all of 10 minutes and didn't even require a bleed since I just laid the bike on its side for each one and put a couple cc more fluid in before the piston.
The magic behind getting any non-floating 4-piston caliper to feel nice and crisp is in the caliper alignment and piston alignment. 9 times out of 10 people who are excessively trying to bleed out a shitty lever feel are just putting the rotor into 3 point bending and the lever feels like swampass.
Shimano brakes are by far the easiest brakes to bleed, it's just that it only lasts a few rides.
TRP dhr brakes are what's right with the industry.
TRP dhr brakes are what's right with the industry.
Has anyone tried drilling and tapping other calipers for the set screws like the trp to make it easier to align them.
Bent, worn or warped rotors cause way more shit than people think hey. It's stupid easy to bleed a brake mint with a bleed block in it and then have it feel rubbish with a spinning wheel because of a bad rotor.
Whats FUCKING WRONG with the industry is getting non-straight brand new rotors out of the box. Goddamn that shits me.
I believe that's a clip to hold the bin bag closed when you finally admit defeat and throw your shitty HOPE brakes in the TRASH where they belong
A couple months ago I made those for Shimano and Sram brakes by demelling away material from the full blocks. Very useful.
I bleed Hopes the same way I do Shimanos, just without a funnel you need a helper to add and remove fluid from the reservoir to keep the level okay.
Lol every Magura owner I know has broken the lever retention mechanism. Including Magura sponsored riders now using cable ties to hold their levers from hyper extending.
Plus they use wood screws for every fitting. Stuff those things. The Shiguras are rad tho.
Does that still happen? It did with my MT8s, was properly dangerous, mud seemed to chew the sphincter bit out then the lever assembly was farked.
I have had no issues with my MT5s in three years, hopefully the 7s will be the same.
Haven't had Hopes for around 12yrs, I'd assume they are not complete shit these days.
The MT7s that came on my buddy's Specialized had the little retention slip pop out twice in like 2 months (once when bike fell over when leaned against a tree, the other time when I crashed it
). I got it back both times but it required some careful work with a dental pick. I never had that issue with the HC3 levers in a few years of owning those - so it must be something with the layout of their longer levers.
Saint levers + MT calipers = still the best feeling brakes.
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