How to Align a Mechanical Disc Brake on a Bike
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- A rubbing or underperforming disc brake can often make a ride frustrating. Regardless of brand and model, this article will help you gain the knowledge you need to adjust mechanical disc brakes to solve annoying noises or weak brake feel.
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Video contents:
00:00 Preliminary Information
03:10 Alignment Procedure
04:45 Alignment Procedure: Single Lever Arm - Dual Adjustment
05:38 Alignment Procedure: Single Lever Arm - Single Adjustment
06:21 Alignment Procedure: Dual Lever Arm
07:09 Final Adjustments
10:15 Other Considerations
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This is not only the best tutorial video on brake adjustments I have ever seen... it's one of the best tutorial videos on ANY subject I have ever seen! The production quality is through the roof! Thank you!
Yes fuck GMBN TECH
Mind-blowing to a novice, but all clearly explained. Didn't realise one brake had so many adjustable parts!
I was like a potato fixing my bike before watching this ahhha
RIGHT?!
>>Didn't realise one brake had so many adjustable parts!
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@@Bonjour-World Still much worth the switch.
I have no words to describe how deep and thoughtful this guide is, after all those fruitless efforts to adjust those brakes it's like I found a treasure. Just plain awesome.
Best video I have found on this subject. I was able to see all the parts clearly, learned a lot and fixed my bike..
Ya I'm here cuz I like to learn myself but I just have my dad do wat I need
Thanks very useful video ;)
Its pretty rare this much quality on a how to do it video. Great job dude!
This is the best how-to guide for mechanical disc brakes. I tried so many methods on setting up brakes, but neither was perfect... until i watched your video. Thanks!
how often i must to do this? i never had mech brakes
Booger not very often, usually as a first time setup for a new brake, afterwards, you would only need to adjust the stationary pad as it wears.
Your videos are so clear and perfect. I love how you use those 3-D images to help us see closer and see what you're talking about keep up the good work
The video is just simply flawless! Subscribed without any second thought! I’d pay him at least 10$ for this video because he saved me 40$
I'm only 3 minutes in but your info was all I needed to finally adjust my brakes on my newly purchased bike.
My bike has been sitting in a spare room for 2 weeks now because the only bike repair shop in my city is booked solid for months and my front brakes were rubbing and I couldn't figure out how to adjust it.
But 3 minutes in and 10 minutes on my bike and it's now working perfectly.
Thank you!
Along with so many others here, I want to say thank you for this fantastic video explanation. I've been reading manuals and watching lesser videos, but nothing got my wheels spinning freely until I found this one. Thank you so much, Park!!
I've had a bike brake adjustment phobia since I was a kid. Your step-by-step video cured it. Thanks you.
Finally, he names the parts and goes step by step with good video. Excellent. Thank you.
I was considering the rim-brake version of the road bike I want, because I was wary of disc brake adjustment...
...this video has made it simple, I now have no doubt about the advantage of disc brakes. Thanks!
This is the best! I fixed my brakes in 1 minute just following this video instructions. Thank you.
Wonderful, clear and concise video! Was able learn in less than 15 mins how to adjust my brakes without guessing and throwing them further out of balance. Truly a life saver and got me on the road. Thank you thank you!!!
I’m about to fight my mechanical disc brakes
Wrd ts madd annoying
It's no fight actually very easy. Even bleeding. You get the hang of it with practice. Purchase isopropyl, degreaser, and kitchen paper towel. You can clean the pads with the above.
This video is one of the clearest and most useful ones I've seen so far. The animations and drawings on top make it easy to see what is mentioned by the speaker. Also, you covered all caliper types which is very useful. In my case, I have a one sided caliper and I wanted to adjust the lever travel, so as for the previous generation of brakes, I pulled the cable. This solution is wrong, and now I see why thanks to this video!
Thank you for making this useful guide
This is excellent. I just put my bike back together after a shop packed it for me and they removed the disc brakes. Your video explained precisely why the brakes were rubbing. So glad I found your tutorial.
I sure love your guys videos. I am a complete novice and have been able to do all my own repairs and fixes because of your explanations and guidance, and I have a recumbent trike, so it's even a little more complicated generally than what you show. Thank you so much for offering these services
After many years & some rotten luck with my car, I am now back on the bike. I needed info on a few things while assembling my mtn bike & came across Park Tool’s vids which lead me to their website, there are plenty of ‘How to’ videos, all very detailed & clear/precise.
Thankyou to the Park Tool team.
I did everything to fix my brakes but not a single method gave satisfactory results, until i watched this video. Thank you for such a great video. Will definitely subscribe you sir.
I learnt so much, thank you!
This is my first time attempting to fix a hand me down mtb with disc brakes. And you really helped de-mystify the subject.
I have to agree that this is a superlative tutorial. I find all the Park Tools videos excellent. Many thanks for being clear and explaining the principles as well as which bits to turn.
Thanks a lot! My brakes are nicely back in alignment. By far the clearest instructional video of ANY kind I've ever seen. Beauty!
After much frustration trying for hours and almost giving up when I just couldn’t get my brakes to work, I followed this video to the word and now I have brakes that actually stop me, great video
Great video! I was having trouble with vertical rotor alignment between the pads. As soon as I tightened the mounting bolts, the alignment was thrown off. Through a process of elimination, the video helped me discover that the problem was my axle was not perfectly seated in the fork dropouts. I re-installed the wheel and voila!, no more misalignment.
For 2 years I've been struggling with brakes and getting poor results. This video just helped me fix my brakes! Thank you so much!
Thank you for making this excellent tutorial on aligning disc brake calipers. After watching this I successfully adjusted and aligned my bike calipers and they work great.
Awesome video! I just bought a bike online and the front brakes would hardly allow the front wheel to turn freely. After watching this video, I completely solved my problem. Brakes work great and wheel turns freely. Thankful for you helping hand!
I'm 3 minutes in, and this is the best damn explanation I've ever seen. In any genre. wow. thanks for the help!
Just installed new brake pads and encountered the dreaded rubbing.
Looked like the caliper/rotor alignment wasn't parallel - had a fiddle with the caliper body bolts and managed to get that wheel turning smoothly!
Great level of visual explanation in this video, exactly what I needed.
By far the most detailed video on mechanical disc brake adjustments. Thank you!
This was a great help. Just got a bike frame with a front disk brake. I never had one before so this is all new to me. Fantastic job. I can go back now and actually adjust these correctly.
This video helped me adjust my, notoriously difficult, Tektro Lyra brakes. Thank you
The best and easiest to understand video out there for adjusting your mechanical disc brakes hands down. Thanks!
WOW! What a pain the ARSE! Thanks so much for your concise and detailed video!!
You guys kept me from replacing my pads before I had to. Thanks so much
It is a great time to be alive. Thank you so much :D
Finally, a tutorial I found useful and easy to understand. Great explanation.
I watched several videos on this subject, I have to say yours is the best and clearest by far. Not only clear, well presented, and with a superior production quality, but accurate. Other presentations are not only shaky, and repetitive, but outright wrong, or ay least sloppy and long winded.
Well done ✨✨✨✨✨
Brilliant, thank you. I am a septuagenarian who received the present of a recumbent tricycle which I pedal all over town and extended trails. I have ridden bicycles at a much earlier time but never learned the mechanics involved. Your video is very well detailed.
Thank you!!! You just helped me align my brakes. No more rubbing!
This was absolutely wonderful! Excellent video and great information. I would not have been able to get the brakes aligned on my new bike without it.
Absolutely brilliant. Fixed my rubbing caliper thanks to this video.
Best brake instruction I've seen, very good!very efficient!
Very helpful and high quality! Thank you!
I have this same problem with my brakes. Thanks for this video.. keep em coming
This guy is a professional i followed the steps which were clearly explained and now brakes are perfect thank you
Brilliant. Clear. Simple. Easy. I was about to unbolt the whole lot and thought I'd look at a video first because i couldn't work out how it all worked - this has saved me a lot of time thanks, possibly saved me an accident too becasue my brakes are poor due to lack of adjustment, as i didnt know how
Park, your instructional videos are an absolute treasure. Everyone involved in these kicks ass!
Man! This is crystal clear! I bought an eBike that a shop assembled for me. Everything was perfect except for the front making a scrubbing sound. I asked them about it and they made it sound normal. a day later I decided to investigate closer and realized that one, the disk was warped and two, the pads were touching. How I knew that, I bought a brand new rotor from amazon, nice and straight and found that the pads were rubbing. I wish I saw this video first before going at it on my own. I did some backward things compared to this video. I ruined the brake caliper, mainly the hex nuts, by over tightening and stripping them. I managed to get the whole thing off and bought a new caliper. When it arrives, I will be having this video by my side! I could of taken it back to the shop, but this is stuff I have to learn as a bike owner. The shop will just be handling the motor when the time comes.
Burned through an hour trying to set up single arm, single adjustment mechanical disk brakes after re-cabling them for the first time. Then checked in here, like I should of originally!
10 minutes later I'm done.
Thank you.
This is such a good and clear video, everything you need, was going to take my bike down to the shop to get it looked at, but gonna try and work it out myself now
Great video, had never built a bike with disc brakes before so this was extremely helpful in setting up the proper alignment.
I was struggling in trying to understand my bike manual... this is clearer than water! Thanks
Finally a video that shows all of it instead of missing parts out that make the difference.
Finally!! A video that explains what those adjustment screws in the middle of the caliper are for. I turned mine both ways and didn't notice anything moving so I wasn't sure what they were for. I'll just try them again and look closer. Overall a great video.
OMG, I was going to take my bike into a shop with 200 miles because one pad kept pressure on one side only with a squeal. A simple adjustment loosening two mounting bolts. Also found they were not tightened down enough or had become loose. THANK YOU for the video.
Your video is crystal clear and to-the-point! Thank you!!!
thanks i have adjusted my disk brake already because of this video you have,thanks a lot☺️
Man park tool is the BEST!!!! I'm good with rim brakes but new to dealin with disc and I've been gettin pissed off trying to adjust these shimano single side adjust brakes but this video really helped man thanks!!!!
Been watching many videos and took me 2 weeks to find this very best informative video.
I ride bike rarely. Just bought a rear ebike conversion. The rotor is rubbing on the pads. Didn't know rotor can slide left or right a lil if need to. I tried using washers to space it but washers is too thick
Great video, lots of information clearly presented to walk you through a bit of a minefield with so many different types of brake. Replaced and aligned my brakes in no time. Thinking I might set up my own bike shop now. Thanks PTs.
Thanks a lot for this crystal clear mechanical disc brake tutorial
Thank you, this was very helpful. I was worried this would be difficult but I was done in like 10 minutes!
Thank you so much, received a bike that had the front disc brake rubbing and was able to fix it in under five minutes thanks to this guide. Glad I didn't have to take it into a shop. Thanks again.
Yeah I have been adjusting the arm instead and noticed the arm is getting really close to the caliper itself. Thank you so much! Finally understand how the whole thing works
Very informative. So far I only had bikes with V-brakes, but I have recently got myself an electric bike that has mechanical disk brakes, and the front one was slightly misaligned.
Great explanation for centering a caliper for disc breaks...I was having a rough time with it...
It's perfect video for mechanical disc brake set up! thx!!
Thanks so much Park Tools - big help!! As a guy who's just got into biking I was nervous about making adjustments by myself but the video is very clear and the timestamps definitely help a lot.
Muchas gracias por sus videos, me costaba mucho trabajo dejar los frenos a punto pero con estos vídeos todo va bien
Muchas gracias a TODO el equipo de park tool
saludos desde México
Thanks so much for the great video - I bought a new bike online and my heart sunk when i connected the wheel and the disc was grinding, you're video was clear and allowed me to make the right adjustments quickly and easily!
Craig Glaser I have the same problem with my new E bike. What part of the video worked best for you as far as getting that grinding halted?
I DEFINITELY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! They make it so easy to understand and so clear! It's almost personalized! THANK YOU. A BIG THANK YOU!
Thanks for this in depth tutorial - I didn't know disc brakes had a lateral adjustment to them, and properly setting them with the technique at 4:46 fixed a rubbing issue I was having.
Just got my first bike with mech brakes, build came with no instructions but your video will help me a lot. Ty
Great video, learned what I needed to deal with my first disc brake set up, THANK YOU :)
Best video on the subject. Thanks for uploading.
BEST GUIDE for persons who need a knowledge for Adjusting brakes, like me...
Thanks a lot, please keep making more videos!
Keep safe and god bless!
Glad it helped!
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation of the process of fully tuning the disc mechanical brakes, I couldn't adjust my brakes for a long time until I found your video, now my brakes are working correctly. thanks from Ukraine
A very clear and concise video! Really helped me do the brake replacement.
Thank you so much. This really helped me out. It was just a matter of tightening the bolts.
Awesome video, easy to understand, gets right to the point he makes you feel like you known him all your life.
Thanks for the video fixed my brakes this morning there was alot of wobble on the disc rotary rubbing on pads managed to strengthen everything out thanks
Many thanks bro! I had been trying to fix and adjust my bikes for ages without realising that my brake disc had to be adjusted from the othet side as well! Thank you 😎👍
Interesting video. Needed to learn this as I acquired a bike with such brake system. Sure it brakes better and faster than V-Brakes but you can't deny the ease of maintenance on v-brakes, I miss them. Learned a lot maintaining them. Now disc brakes. Sounds a tad tricky but I get the just. Coming from a very unhandy man, I love learning bike mechanics because it makes sense and you don't need brute force to get things done, not like car mechanics. Can't wait to get to wrenching! Thanks for the vid!
Great explanation and thank you it fixed my problem with brakes.
Great stuff ! Thanks for the tutorial-especially the (many) different type of calipers. You saved me the cost and inconvenience of a trip to the LBS.
I fooled around trying to adjust my brakes for over 30 minutes and the pads stilll rubbed. After watching your great tutorial I was up and running (front and rear brakes) in under 5 minutes. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks you’ve just saved me a stack of cash was going to upgrade to hydraulics but my mechanical brakes work great now 👍🏻
Thank you so much. I had front brake problem for 3 weeks and the bike service was refusing to fix my bike. Finally I can ride whit th boys 🍻🥳
Love the depth of video ! Please keep it up
Dear I really appreciate your efforts ,
Big like from Egypt 🇪🇬 😍
Excellent closeups, process descriptions, general explanations. Congrats!
This is really amazing, straight to the point and not so much talking
Thank you! my cheap bike's breaks weren't quite as easy as shown but this video still got me most of the way there!
Great job parktool !! 👍👍
It really helped it clear and made it very simple to tune my escooter noisy disk brake. You guys do an incredible job ! I just come to your channel first for any bike related doubts.
THANK YOU! i just fixed my brakes at home! 🥰 no more rubbing! 😁👌
What an awesome tutorial. Getting straight to the point, no BS, and having those bookmarks so you could go back to each section as you need is perfection. Also, every single type of brake is covered. Does it get any better than this? I don't think so. Thank you park tools!!
Well, if you got adhd like i do all that usefull stuff is just clutter that makes it take like four hours to process the whole video and figure out what 3% i actually need. Just like school.
A true teacher. Good work buddy.