Disk brakes? Hot!

They only get hot the first couple of times. Try again in
a few days.

"ain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was

riding

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down a hill earlier tonight, It was pretty steep grade so
I had the brakes on all the way down, about a full minute
give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so

long

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so after I got down to the bottom of the hill I did a
stupid thing. I stopped, got off the bike, and touched the
disk. I almost burned the skin off my fingers, they were
like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a

limit

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to how long I can brake? Will long braking sessions cause
damage to the disks or brake pads?

Thanks in advance.

ain said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks?

Yeah, it's right next to *that* other warning sticker about
not storing double edged razor blades in your underwear.
--
Slacker

Jerry Bone Jr said:

They only get hot the first couple of times. Try again in
a few days.

Can't wait to see his post in a few days.

Greg

Nice Jerry, that's what you should tell the kid. Yeesh :-)

They get hot and long braking won't hurt them, they won't
fade very much in my experiences. Some will, but the good
ones should not. They get hot!!! Some moreso than others,
I have Hayes and Shimano and my Hayes heat up easily
compared to the Shimano's. The best part is riding in the
rain and then listening to the raindrops hitting your disc
after a long decent, ahhh, biking. It's been a long winter
I can't wait....

....begging for some trail action

Sherman

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They only get hot the first couple of times. Try again in
a few days.

"ain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was

riding

Quoted message said:

down a hill earlier tonight, It was pretty steep grade
so I had the

brakes

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

on all the way down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so

long

Quoted message said:

so after I got down to the bottom of the hill I did a
stupid thing. I stopped, got off the bike, and touched
the disk. I almost burned the

skin

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Quoted message said:

off my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a

limit

Quoted message said:

to how long I can brake? Will long braking sessions
cause damage to the disks or brake pads?

Thanks in advance.

"ain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MeElc.360828$oR5.46456@pd7tw3no...

Quoted message said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was

riding

Quoted message said:

down a hill earlier tonight, It was pretty steep grade so
I had the brakes on all the way down, about a full minute
give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so

long

Quoted message said:

so after I got down to the bottom of the hill I did a
stupid thing. I stopped, got off the bike, and touched the
disk. I almost burned the skin off my fingers, they were
like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a

limit

Quoted message said:

to how long I can brake? Will long braking sessions cause
damage to the disks or brake pads?

Thanks in advance.

Oh.......you've done that too? 🙂

I learned quickly never to do that again.

ain said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a limit to how long I can brake? Will long
braking sessions cause damage to the disks or brake pads?

Thanks in advance.

It's called friction! Rub your hands together and tell me if
they don't get warm. Same principle.

--
- Zilla Cary, NC (Remove XSPAM)

"ain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MeElc.360828$oR5.46456@pd7tw3no...

Quoted message said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was

riding

Quoted message said:

down a hill earlier tonight, It was pretty steep grade so
I had the brakes on all the way down, about a full minute
give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so

long

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so after I got down to the bottom of the hill I did a
stupid thing. I stopped, got off the bike, and touched the
disk. I almost burned the skin off my fingers, they were
like 400 degrees.

Running w/ scissors is dumb, too.

Dave

ain said:

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks?

Sue the makers for 300 gazillion bucks!!!!

(That is when you're american. The rest of the world
wouldn't be THAT dumb. 😉 )

"ain" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MeElc.360828$oR5.46456@pd7tw3no...

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Hello everyone.

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Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks?

the warning is kind of inclusive under the main heading in
the book of life called "common sense"

Michael

Quoted message said:

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a limit to how long I can brake? Will long
braking sessions cause damage to the disks or brake pads?

Brakes get hot; don't touch them. Don't stick body parts in
the chain or the spokes. Do not wreck. Check your front tire
mount often. Do not attempt to remove a leaf which is
rubbing a tire.

There. You've been warned. 😉

There IS a limit to how long you can brake, just like in a
car or any other vehicle which uses friction brakes. You'll
know when you've hit the limit: they simply stop braking no
matter how hard you apply them.

Just like in your car (if you are yet of driving age), you
can indeed cook the brakes, thereby shortening their life.
That's why they make replacement parts 😉

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Running w/ scissors is dumb, too. Dave

Unless you are listening to the Wierd Al album of the
same name!

ain said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a limit to how long I can brake? Will long
braking sessions cause damage to the disks or brake pads?

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to AM-B. Went straight for the initiation did you?
;-)

Cheers, Shawn

ain said:

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks?

See there all you parents out there, this is what happens
when you protect your children from "unsupervised playtime".
You get a whole population of adults who expect everything
that they touch to behave like a Fisher-Price toy. No sharp
edges, hot surfaces, etc.

See, life isn't like that. There's sharp, hot, caustic,
dirty, and otherwise unsafe stuff EVERYWHERE. If you
don't learn that before you leave high school, when do
you learn it?

When I was a kid, my parents literally sent me out to play
with a can of lighter fluid and a box of matches. And I
turned out OK.
--
Tom "who really needs eyelashes anyway?" Purvis
Salida, CO - arkansasvalley.nettpurvisOpen ↗

Tom Purvis said:

ain said:

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks?

See there all you parents out there, this is what happens
when you protect your children from "unsupervised
playtime". You get a whole population of adults who expect
everything that they touch to behave like a Fisher-Price
toy. No sharp edges, hot surfaces, etc.

See, life isn't like that. There's sharp, hot, caustic,
dirty, and otherwise unsafe stuff EVERYWHERE. If you
don't learn that before you leave high school, when do
you learn it?

When I was a kid, my parents literally sent me out to play
with a can of lighter fluid and a box of matches. And I
turned out OK.

You going on the Absolute ride today? Just leave the lighter
fluid at home OK?

Shawn

Tom Purvis said:

When I was a kid, my parents literally sent me out to play
with a can of lighter fluid and a box of matches.

Was this by any chance right after they took out a life
insurance policy on you?

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And I turned out OK.

Yeah, much to their chagrin! 🙂

Bill "Little Tommy Boom-boom?" S.

Zilla said:

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Is there any warning I missed about not touching the
disks? Is there a limit to how long I can brake? Will
long braking sessions cause damage to the disks or
brake pads?

Well, talk to any old timer roadie about sewups. They're
glued to the rims; too much braking and the glue melts and
the tire comes off.

Sewups make for some seriously fast descents....

As for your question, where does the kinetic energy of
you+bike@some high speed go? Into heat. The only way you
dissipate that energy, short of hitting a large fixed
object, is by converting it into heat. Rims get warm;
they have a larger surface area. Disks get hot; smaller
surface area.

And as for the warning, wasn't the yowling you heard warning
enough? Will you do it again? :-)

-Kamus

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See there all you parents out there, this is what happens
when you protect your children from "unsupervised
playtime". You get a whole population of adults who expect
everything that they touch to behave like a Fisher-Price
toy. No sharp edges, hot surfaces, etc.

Agreed. I am not that way with my son at all. I think that
plays into why so many Americans are sue happy.

ain said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Who's got that photo of the glow in the dark disc rotors
that was posted ages back? Was that one of your's,
Slacker???? It was a night-time photo of a blurry bike and
you could see the rotors glowing orange!

--
Westie (Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)

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ain said:

Hello everyone.

Kinda new here, been reading the newsgroup for about a
week or two.

Just bought a new Specialized crossroads bike with disk
brakes. I was riding down a hill earlier tonight, It was
pretty steep grade so I had the brakes on all the way
down, about a full minute give or take.

I was wondering if the disk brakes got warm after having
them on for so long so after I got down to the bottom of
the hill I did a stupid thing. I stopped, got off the
bike, and touched the disk. I almost burned the skin off
my fingers, they were like 400 degrees.

Who's got that photo of the glow in the dark disc rotors
that was posted ages back? Was that one of your's,
Slacker???? It was a night-time photo of a blurry bike and
you could see the rotors glowing orange!

Might have been John G (Clydesdale).

Shaun aRe