As a rule, it is required to carry out adjustment of brakes of the bicycle not often. The standard procedure is carried out before the first trip when there is a question – how to adjust brakes by bicycle. Further it is necessary just to support the equipment in working order.
And still, there are situations when it is necessary to adjust anew brakes for the sake of safe driving.
Control is usually connected with providing necessary distance between brake shoes, their symmetric arrangement on the relation to each other. By regular bicycle it is possible to tighten a cable and to make some settings just as to tighten brakes by high-speed bicycle. The difference can be in extent of tightening and quantity of bolts.
Work on setup of the brake system of the bicycle depends on a type of brakes. They happen:
- obodny;
- disk.
How to adjust back brakes by bicycle?
It is necessary to get to work as soon as it became clear that with bicycle there are problems. Therefore for a start it is required to check brakes. For this purpose follows:
- to lift a front wheel of the bicycle, to untwist it and to press the brake handle, at serviceability the wheel immediately will stop (at the same time it is important to pay attention whether there is no contact with the brake handle to a wheel, otherwise it is necessary to hold on a cable);
- now the same manipulations are carried out with a back wheel;
- if with the brake handle everything is all right and the cable is tightened, then it is necessary to pass to check of brake shoes (disk brakes it is more difficult obodny, because of the difference of blocks and the rotating parts);
- if it is the mountain bicycle, then by it the new v-brake brake system is used and adjustment needs to be carried out on it.
It is not necessary to know how to tighten brakes by bicycle of concrete model. By different bicycles of the location of bolts and small screws can differ, for the rest the principle of work is identical.
Check of brakes
What to pay attention first of all at control of back brakes by bicycle to?
The main thing is to check placement of blocks in parallel to a rim. Further we perform the following work.
It is necessary to find a six-sided nut to weaken a block. Further it is necessary to press a brake – to check, it is how dense and in what place there is a contact of a rim. Blocks can be put forward, displaced, moved, and then to tighten bolts.
It is necessary to adjust distance between each block and a rim separately so that they were at identical distance approximately in 1-3 mm. Though a lot of things depend on concrete model of the bicycle. Now it is enough to press the handle that braking began slightly.
After control of brakes it is necessary to check their action on the run. Therefore it is necessary to pass several dozen meters by bicycle, alternately gathering and dumping speed, changing smooth and sharp transition to braking. Has to work for hundred percent.
If during pressing brakes, a wheel continues rotation for a long time, it is necessary to recheck systems, fixture, distance between blocks or disks again. The working brake in good repair works instantly.
What to pay attention to?
Correction of the brake system of the bicycle allows to eliminate any flaws. But sometimes it is necessary to be engaged not only in control, but also replacement of blocks if brakes badly work on the bicycle. More precisely, replacement of blocks is required because of deleting. Besides obodny the type of blocks is used up quicker than disk.
At open hydraulics the brake system itself adjusts work of blocks. Having installed the closed hydraulic brake system by the bicycle, all adjustments should be done also for it (it will be required special gates).
Having swept on the smooth road, it is possible to establish, how fast the brake system reacts to team of braking. It is possible to check the equipment on different sections of the road – rises, descents, roughnesses – that there was no doubt left in serviceability of the equipment.