Fresh, thick pads should have brought that pedal back up where it should be, but it didn’t. Your pedal probably feels spongy and it’s often hard to feel exactly when the brakes start to bite.

While normal bleeder bottles use a tube that sits in the brake fluid, old fluid and even air can be sucked back into the system. With this check valve, nothing can backflow into your caliper ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about pointless marketing hype. It’s a topic that many riders have a lot of feelings about, and for good reason. If you’ve been riding bikes long enough, you’ve ...

and old brake pads as well as installing the new brake pad and putting the pistons and calipers back together before setting the wheel in place again and tightening nuts and bolts. Brake pad ...

Brake manufacturers have contended that most consumers change only the front or rear brakes at one time, so a concurrent dual test is unnecessary. But, according to officials from Greening ...