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Colony BMX – How To Replace BMX Brake Pads

January 2, 2016

Colony have released their second How To video on working on your BMX bike. Although brakes aren’t as common as they used to be, there’s still a lot of riders out there that do run them, especially the young guns just getting into BMX. Installing brake pads is fairly easy, but if you don’t do it right, your brakes won’t work properly, so this how to video will show you the order of how things go.

“Detailed look into how to replace your brakes pads. Any questions feel free to leave in the comments and we will do our best to answer them.

Products featured:
Colony Brethren Brake set.”

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Sneak Peek: Fly Bikes – 2015 Manual Springhanger Brakes

August 12, 2014

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Today Flybikes dropped a preview of their new Manual brakes using the “Springhanger” system which essentially removes the springs from the arms and puts it on the bridge cable for easy installation and adjustment. This is one item I personally cannot wait to be able to get my hands on…

“The next item in our 2015 preview is something we have been working on for a few years now and we’re very excited to finally release it! The new Manual Springhanger brakes use our new brake system which eliminates the springs on the brake mounts with an oversized spring as the cable hanger that also creates the tension on the arms.

This concept is very simple. We have removed the copper inserts and springs on the arms with kevlar washers and use the spring to adjust the tension by simply bending the spring inward or outward to your preferred tension. By doing this, we have simplified installation, made adjusting the tension more simplistic and given the brakes a cleaner look.

The Manual Springhanger brakes come with the hanger, spring, arms, brake pads and two sets of bolts; one for welded on and Easy Brake System mounts and another for removable brake mounts.

These will be available in October through all shops and mail-orders that carry Flybikes worldwide!”

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Product: Odyssey – Evo 2 and Springfield Brake Kits

January 28, 2014

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Due for a whole new brake setup or want to put brakes back on your bike? Odyssey have just released two complete brake kits to make this as easy as possible for you. They’ve just introduced a complete Springfield and EVO 2 kits for you. The Springfield kit comes with the brakes (I’ve been running them personally for a year now and they’re great), Springfield lever, Ghost pads and a Linear cable for the more affordable option. Then they have the EVO 2 brake, Monolever, Slim By Four brake pads and the Odyssey K-Sheild Linear Slic Kable for the higher end option. Both are available now so hit up your favorite shop or mail-order to get some ordered up! Then go do a fufanu or abubaca for me!

Product: Tree Bicycle Co. – SB Power Cable

July 26, 2013

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Sam over at Tree Bicycle Co. sent through a little info on their SB Power brake cable for you guys to see. This linear brake cable has a few key features that help to improve braking power. This cable starts out with Kevlar fiber wrapped outer housing with a teflon lined inner housing and a 1.5mm pre-stretched Teflon coated inner wire with CNC machined 6061-T6 aluminum ferrules and that brass barrel design that they licensed from Kink. Essentially, Tree have taken all of the good features of other brake cables out there and wrapped them all into one cable. This cable is available in black with lengths of 44″ and the standard 50″ if you want a little more cable to work with for a custom fit.

“The cable end:
We licensed the brass barrel design from Kink bikes instead of just taking their idea. The separate brass barrel piece prevents wire twist and allows the cable to self-correct which works really well at increasing pulling power due to the stiffer wire.
The cable can be easily converted to a lower gyro cable by removing the barrel.

The ferrules:
The aluminum ferrules have a flat bottom for the housing to butt up against which keeps the cable from binding up on the ends. They also have a nylon plastic guide inside so there is no metal on metal rubbing.

The housing:
Uses steel linear wires with Kevlar fiber wrap that prevents binding when the cable is twisted up. Inside is lined with a Teflon tube built into the housing.

The cable:
The inner wire is 1.5mm pre-stretched, die extruded, and Teflon coated for lowest friction possible.

A lot of cables have some of these attributes but the Tree cable is the first cable to have all of these benefits in one cable.” – Sam Schulte

Product: Odyssey – Adjustable Quik Slic Kable

July 15, 2013

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Odyssey‘s original one-piece Quik Slic Kable was in theory an awesome idea and it truely did work with certain BMX frames. However, with the endless options for frame geometry, a number of frames just didn’t fit their available sizes. Odyssey went and tweaked the design to make it adjustable to make it fit pretty much every frame now days. You can find out more about the new version by hitting up ESPN BMX! I want to give one of these a go for sure.

Eclat – Sniper Lever featuring Darryl Tocco

June 25, 2013

Take a look at this new promo video from Eclat featuring their new Sniper lever and the one and only, Darryl Tocco, showing you how to put it to proper use! Dialed lever and some dialed tricks. Can’t go wrong. Take a look then take a closer look at the lever RIGHT HERE!

“The Sniper lever was designed from the very beginning to be the ultimate brake lever in all senses. The shape of the lever itself was sculpted for the perfect reach, with a slimmer centre section and then wider at the end where the finger pulls. This improves the ergonomic feeling of the lever and therefore the force you can comfortably apply on it. The backside of the lever is flat, so that when the lever is pulled tight, there is still maximum clearance to the knuckles of the other fingers. We used a cold forging process for the lever part as this offers increased strength characteristics over casting.

The clamp is hinged to allow easier positioning on the handlebar, and particular focus was made on making this fixing as strong as possible, as this is often the area of weakness on other brake levers, with threads stripping out. We used a crmo bolt and barrel set up as it is a stronger material and in using the barrel rather than a fixed thread the bolt can align itself into the perfect clamping position. Ultimately, this means when you tighten this lever on your handlebar, it’s going to stay put! The main part of the clamp is die cast 6061 alloy and the lower hinged section is cold forged for increased strength. The pivot pin is also made from crmo to ensure the hinge is as strong as possible.

To keep the lever pivoting smoothly we use a high quality two piece brass bushing which is machined to the perfect tolerance so that the lever clamps firmly but at the same time can hinge easily. We felt this was very important, as it is the feeling you get through your finger which reassures you how strong your brake is, and that you can trust it to hold when you need it.

We felt the lever deserved similar attention on the barrel adjuster, so we designed our own shape that blended perfectly with the lever, and used a CNC finish to ensure a precise fit and function. The final details were added with laser etched éclat logos to the clamp lever end.” – Eclat

Product: 34R – Clito Brake System

April 9, 2013

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Are you thinking about picking up some new brakes? Have you checked out the new Clito brake system from 34R? Head over to the Sidewall Distribution website to take a closer look at just what makes these brakes so good.

Tobias Wicke – New Brake System

March 21, 2013

Tobias Wicke recently had an idea to make it so he could control both front and back brakes on his bike with one brake lever. After a little bit of a modification to his lever, he was able to make it work. Check out this video giving you a closer look at this wild setup along with some front brake magic from him! This is friggen awesome.

Edit: Hans F. / 20ZOLL MEDIA
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