Broken mountain bike argghh?

Question

Broken mountain bike argghh?

Answer 1

1. Take some sand paper and rough up the discs on both sides. Remove the pads and clean them with rubbing alcohol and sand them down, too. Adjust the brakes so there is a gap as wide as a business card is thick. Loosen the brake cable at the caliper, turn the barrel adjuster on the brake lever to the middle of the travel, this will give you a little adjusting room. Pinch the caliper closed with a business card between the pad and disc, then tighten the cable.

2. Right-rear, left-front.

3. One of the pedals screws on backwards. The threads on one are righty-righty, and the other is lefty-tighty. This is so it doesn't unscrew while you are pedalling.

4. You can find cheap tools online, and the cd "break it, fix it, ride it" by Park Tool.

Answer 2

you need a mechanic

Answer 3

Seems you just bought one from a hypermarket. Often these are delivered to their warehouse as knocked downs. The workers there assembled them and deliver to the hypermarket. There is almost no quality check most of the time



You can bring it to a bike shop to re-assemble the bike



You can also do-it-yourself:

You are in a country with right-hand-drive traffic, so safer to fix the right hand brake cable activating the front wheel brake and the left hand brake cable activating the rear wheel brake (You need to signal slowing down with the right hand while braking with the left hand to slow down). Adjust the brake cables tension so that there is no gap wider than 3mm between the respective brake pads and the wheel rim. One pedal has got left-hand thread (counter-clockwise to screw it in), so check if you got the correct pedal on the thread on the crank



Rare, but it can happen that somehow and different sized pedals given to you (none of them will fit the crank)

Answer 4

Try to buy VIA MONTHLY payments which are wonderfully offered by MOST bike shops ( i.e. winstanleysbikes.co.uk, leisurelakesbikes.co.uk) so you may have enough dough to earn for a more well-equipped and incredibly functional bike. ( Go for those Kona bikes -SCRAP,BLAST,CINDER CONE,etc. hardtails that can handle the berms and switchbacks!). Your bike now ain't gonna do you well---

Answer 5

vintage mountain bikes are better. Those rich guys blow out their shocks when they try to keep up with me on my hardtails.

Answer 6

This is the problem with mechanicals. Rather than putting V brakes on (It could be that you have disc specific forks, although at the price bracket which uses mechanicals I shouldn't thinks so) you might consider putting a decent set of hydraulics on. A viable set of avid 3 or deore might do the trick. A replacement crank arm LHS should cost you £15. If it is RHS, then it is a bit more. Consider buying Deore Hollowtec II chainset for £60.



If those few jobs (Brakes and crank) cost as much as the bike, you need to look at upgrading, as you say, since it sounds like you have outgrown you existing.



Try this:



http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/hardrock-disc-2010-mountain-bike-ec019400



The V brake equivilent is:



http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/hardrock-2010-mountain-bike-ec019401



However, if you want a bike that is going to be fun to muck about in the woods, you need to spend at least £500.



These are not bad:



http://www.evanscycles.com/products/scott/aspect-20-2009-mountain-bike--ec016255

A bit heavy and kit is only OK.





http://www.evanscycles.com/products/kona/blast-2009-mountain-bike-ec017217

Mechanical brakes and 24 gears, but a well set up machine. Should give you a lot of fun. Got an MBR 10





http://www.evanscycles.com/products/scott/scale-70-2009-mountain-bike-ec016239

Race bike. Not good for trail centres, but fast for XC





http://www.evanscycles.com/products/gt/avalanche-10-disc-2009-mountain-bike-ec016364

Viable kit and nice ride, but a bit heavy.



Luck

Answer 7

You want to clean the disk, replace the brake pads and lubricate the brake cable. The left side is for the front and the right for the rear. Find out what brakes you have and do a search for the manufacturers web site and read the service manual, it will tell you how to adjust and replace the pads. The left side pedal will have left handed threads on it so you turn it counter-clock wise to install.



http://bicycletutor.com/



http://sheldonbrown.com/home.html



http://www.parktool.com/repair/

Answer 8

Use a scuff pad or 500 grit sandpaper on the rotor. It will help a lot.

The break cables right is rear - left is front

Are you screwing it normal? You need to reverse it in order to get it on



look for a bike that uses a good frame on a cheaper bike. Go with a hard tail over full suspension

Answer 9

try selling it

Answer 10

Lubricating your brake cables and adjusting your brake calipers could go a long way toward improving your brakes, often new bikes with mechanical disc brakes suffer from poor assembly and brake cable routing. Your problem with your pedal( or is it your crank arm? the explanation is not very clear) requires a couple of special tools. Remember, once you buy a tool, you will also have it to use the next time you have to do repairs of maintenance, so even if it costs money this time, you save in the future, think long term.