Brakes

[Catrin]

I rode my Trek last week for the first time since bringing my LHT home - and noticed something about the brakes. Compared to my LHT, the brakes seem softer, slower to engage. Both bikes have trigger shifters and brakes - does this seem a normal variation or something I should check on?

Is this something "I" can check, or should I have my LBS look at it?

[KnottedYet]

Different bikes, different brakes, different tensions.

If you feel you have good control with each and can stop completely, I wouldn't worry much.

I just got new brake pads and my brakes feel completely different than they did 14 hours ago.

[Catrin]

Different bikes, different brakes, different tensions.

If you feel you have good control with each and can stop completely, I wouldn't worry much.

I just got new brake pads and my brakes feel completely different than they did 14 hours ago.

Thanks - I will keep this in mind the next time I take it out. Sadly the Trek feels like this huge cumbersome, too-large beast of a thing after my LHT - and it is the aluminum bike! I can't talk about it too much though, it is the bike on which I learned how to ride.

[DebW]

Some of the Trek hybrids and comfort bikes have springs in the brakes to make the mushy. They just never will feel solid like a good brake should.

[Catrin]

Some of the Trek hybrids and comfort bikes have springs in the brakes to make the mushy. They just never will feel solid like a good brake should.

Do you know if they do this for the Trek 7.6 FX? The 7.6 is pretty far up the FX line. I do not remember them being this mushy - but then again - until I put almost 400 miles on the LHT before touching the Trek again I did not have anything to compare against.

[OakLeaf]

Some of the Trek hybrids and comfort bikes have springs in the brakes to make them mushy.

What the ... Why would they do that?! Sounds like a lawsuit to me...

[DebW]

Those springs are only on the Navigators and maybe some of the lower level hybrids like the 7000, but not sure. A 7.6fx should have good solid brakes.

I think the idea on the Navigators is to soften the power of the front brake so people can't send themselves over the handlebars. Those bikes are made for occassional riders.