Some of the most common questions I often get asked involve brakes: What are the different types of brakes on a mountain bike? How do mountain bike brakes work? V-brake or disc br ...

Despite the industry-wide switch, there is still a lot of mystery surrounding disc brakes for many of us. Confusion over axle standards, rotor sizes pad compounds and bleeding procedures are nothing ...

This generates friction, slowing the drum and your bike.A disc brake system is comprised of a large metal rotor, 2 flat brake pads and a hydraulic clamp called a “caliper”. Pressing the brake ...

Braking systems, up until recently, have all mostly relied on an antiquated, yet highly redundant technique of using hydraulics to squeeze a caliper onto a rotating disc called the rotor.