Ripe off

£50 for new brake pedal and rubber

 

Why is that a rip(e) off? Seems about the going rate to me. What's it
for anyway?

 

Is it passed its sell-by date?

 

Chris, old fruit - that's not expensive.
I think you're going soft in your old age.

 

They always are more expensive off-season. You`re better off waiting until
March.

 

Slowing you down.

HTH

 

Here, I heard some juicy gossip...

 

Go on then - spill the beans.

 

Wicked idea, ride all winter with no back brake guess ill have to practice
keeping the bike up right when i lock the front wheel or may be attatch a
ski to the front forks

 

Chris Griffiths wrote

I intend to do just that very thing. I am certainly going to try.

 

Heh, not my choice? Is the back brake that bad, or is it knackered?

 

Can I claim this as a whoosh? )

 

Muck wrote

Bad? Far from it.
Knackered? Not one jot.
Digital? All the fucking way.

Horrendous it is. I am seriously thinking of buying some new pads and
soaking them in Teflon for a month before I put them on but somehow I
still think they would grip like a 35 year old catholic having her first
climax.

The other thing is to have a bit of fun with the back end for a couple
of weeks before the wet weather starts and then buy it some race rubber.

 

I did that last year/earlier this year on the basis of it not fucking
working, the weather being too cold and wet and really not being arsed
enough to sort it. Made a big positive difference to my riding style
and corner speed, it did. Shagged my front brake pads a bit sharpish,
mind.

Winter braking - plan ahead and use the front. Much like Summer
braking only with the addition of a few metres feathering.

 

You can indeed, but it's hardly sport with Chrissie G, is it.

 

You may have hit the nail on the head there - it's Christine, innit.

It all comes clear now - only a burd could be that consistently stupid
and hope to get away with it.

 

Heh. Good point, well made.

Still, we all have to start somewhere...

 

Heh, you could try attacking them with a sanding disk in the right way?

I'm just going to bung a new set of MT35s on my CG.

 

i like to use my back brake in slow moving trafic and for the final stop got
more control that way

 

Muck wrote

So enlighten me, I am new to this market. What possible advantage would
an MT35 have over the hard as nails Michelin M38 on the back and
apparently even harder Continental TKP14 what is on the front?