Brakes
Why Are My Bike Disc Brakes Squealing? Sort It by When It Happens
Squealing or squeaking bike disc brakes have seven usual causes. Match the noise to when it happens, run one test per cause, and fix it for good.
Tech Tips
Repair guides written from the workstand in Ballston Spa — bleeding brakes, chasing creaks, setting preload, and the tools each job actually needs.
Brakes
When to Replace Disc Brake Rotors: Wear Signs and Minimum Thickness
Disc rotors wear out slowly, then fail fast. How to read the stamp, measure the wear track, and know when a rotor is done, with per-brand minimums.
Brakes
How to Bleed Disc Brakes: A Shimano and SRAM Walkthrough
Bleed Shimano mineral-oil and SRAM DOT disc brakes step by step, with the one rule that saves your seals: match the fluid to your brake before you start.
Brakes
What Is a Sintered Brake Pad? Sintered vs Organic Explained
How sintered brake pads are made, how sintered, organic, and semi-metallic compounds actually differ, and why the Slovenian brand Sinter sells pads that are organic.
Brakes
What Is a Flare Nut Wrench and What Is It Used For?
What a flare nut wrench is, why fluid-line fittings need its slotted six-point head, how it differs from open-end and box-end wrenches, and which sizes fit bicycle hydraulic brakes.
Brakes
How to choose Sinter brake pads: compound, fitment, and use case
Which Sinter model fits your brake, which compound suits your riding, and where the Elite line earns its titanium backing plate. The pad-selection guide for the Slovenian organic-compound brand we sell.
Brakes
Which bleed kit fits Shimano road brakes and SRAM Maven Bronze? A compatibility guide
How to match a bleed kit to your brake: mineral oil versus DOT, the Shimano M5-vs-M7 road funnel, the SRAM Maven Bronze 5.0 mm block, and which Bleedkit.com kit fits each system.
Brakes
Choosing the right wrench for hydraulic disc brake service
Which Unior wrench fits which fitting on a hydraulic disc brake: bleed-screw sizes, flare-nut design, compression-nut torque, and what's at stake when one rounds.
Brakes
Disc brake pad maintenance
How to inspect disc brake pads for wear without pulling the wheel, when to replace them, and the simple tools that make the check painless.
Brakes
Disc Brake Pad Bedding In Procedure
Fresh Sinter pads need a proper bed-in to reach full power: the stop-by-stop procedure, and the mistakes that glaze pads instead.
Brakes
Fix Disc Brake Rub
That tsss-tsss of rotor on pad is fixable: caliper alignment, piston resets, and rotor truing to silence disc brake rub.