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Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 819
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Rear brake broken?
Removed the rear brake caliper to pull the wheel to swap tires and now this morning the foot lever is floppy and the pads aren’t grabbing. I pulled the caliper off and put it back on hoping that would work but nothing changed. It’s got plenty of fluid and worked fine before I changed out the tire. Any guesses? I was hoping that maybe some water got in there and froze from when I gave it a wash and it just needs a thaw????
![]() **I poured water over it all and it behaved normally for a couple of minutes so mystery solved. It’s too dang cold for this!
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Join Date: May 2019
Location: Rockford, IL
Posts: 98
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I was just out riding yesterday here and it was about 29°. But I make a habit to never wash my bike.
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Jefferson city Tenn
Posts: 27
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Most brake fluids ( Except for DOT 5 types ) are made from some type of glycol based compound. Most of those compounds have a freezing point of around -40 Deg C . That is from online search on brake fluid , Ive been out of bikes for while lot of changes since I owned 1. What remember if have fluid that's been there while it goes bad or is less effective -40 C is cold, if just wasted an had ice on it well. Hope not knowing much helps= Since ive been out of game long time
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 1,894
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Probably just pushed the pistons into the calipers a bit. Pumping the brake peddle a bunch of times should return things to normal.
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