Recent content by AlanB

Once it happens, you won't have any doubt about it. In any case it takes time to build up. First the warped like sounds, then more gritty. Then when it sounded like the pads were running over a crack in the disc I said I'm not going to wait around for that to happen. Lucky I was wrong.

I thought the discs were warped but they're not. The pads were wearing more on one side of each caliper. The clicks and clunks are easier to hear when almost stopped. It's been causing me to take it easy as though the discs were damaged and about to fail. After cleaning the lever takes hold...

I did, thanks. I went for a good ride and they are still ticking and clattering when stopping.. not as much as before, so at least this is the right thing to be doing.

The bobbins were stuck and the brakes ticked at low speed. I loosened and cleaned them. The lever is now higher, the brakes work much better and the noise is less but not gone. I couldn't get them loose enough to rotate by hand. I can't get the rotors to turn on the former or move noticeably at...