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Old 07-20-09 | 07:22 PM
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Clipless pedal and hydraulic brake issues.

Couple things I don't know about.

A. Front hydraulic brake - avid juicy 7 - now I have to pull the lever back farther than it went before. No, not the little rotating adjuster thing. Thats all the way in so that the lever needs be pulled back the least. Why is it doing this?

B. My right clipless pedal is annoying me. Shimano SPD. I keep unclipping when I don't want to, for example, jumping, or hammering. It never did this before - worn out pedal or worn out cleat?

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Old 07-20-09 | 09:06 PM
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Fluid leak or loss? Air bubbles in the system? Avid has a 46 page manual on these things you can down
load or www.park.com has a Repair section that covers some of this.

Pedal: Most such pedals have an allen key adjuster that varies spring tension. Try swapping cleats from
R<->L shoe and see if the problem switches with the cleat. Borrow someone else's shoe ditto. SPD
pedals are so common should be easy to find another shoe. Try your shoes on someone else's pedal.
Should be able to parse out some info that way. Cleat more likely the problem than pedal, depending
on the pedal. Some pedals are cheaper than replacement cleats.
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Old 07-20-09 | 09:14 PM
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Hmm. Hope I don't have to get them bled. And when my friend who also uses SPDs gets back from peru, I'll steal one of his shoes. Thanks for the help!
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