Hey, I feel like a major jerk just by posting again on this site and I'll try my best not to post at all anymore and I am sorry for being such an a*shole, but I've been wondering about my rear brake being messed up and I have a picture of the brake lever, brake being pulled, and brake being not-pulled, so if you can please just respond on a way of fixing or adjusting it because I want to learn to do it instead of having some old bicycle shop around town fix it for me. Thanks for all the help guys n' sorry for being such a jerk.
(Picture 1 is brake lever, Picture 2 is brake not being pulled, Picture 3 is brake being pulled)
P.S. And I'm also sorry for all those who somewhat looked up to me in a way :/.......... and with the brakes not looking much different; thats the problem...lol........
Let me offer you some advice. First chill out with all the apologies. You sound like you either crying or trying to go for a sympathy vote. Just let it go. Second tone down the language, no offense your a kid. It seems like every post of your has ****, or a*shole or something. It dont make you sound cool it makes you sound like a kid thats trying to sound tough or something cause your folks arent around or something. It's not working for you.
Back to the matter at hand though. You need to back up and take some clear pictures of what your trying to show us. Those are way big and way blurry. I'd be glad to help if I can but I cant even tell what I'm looking at really.
The attitude is forgiven ( if you PM the individual you were bashing on ) and promise to have fun riding/wrenching on your bike in the future...
Save the attitude for say... your neighbors pitbull, or better yet my pit pitbull, he loves attitude!!!
Anyway, your pics, and description as to your brake problem are too vague, if your brakes aren't working properly, then OK they need adjustment.
The adjustment part is a process of centering the caliper (Helps to have the wheels of the ground), setting the slack in the cable, and finally, having the pads take hold at a point in the lever throw, that your comfortable with...
For you it may be easiest, to find something to hold your front wheel of the ground, and experiment with it.
Turn the knurled knob on the caliper in/out, until the pads appear to be centered, rotate the front wheel, does it drag? does the break lever stop the wheel? if not make the adjustments necessary to make it do that.
There's only a few places to make adjustments, so screwing it up isn't too easy unless your real determined to screw it up...
The whole idea is to have the caliper centered on the rotor, and be able to spin the wheel and have none or almost no friction, or resistance, then adjust the play in the cable to give you the amount of breaking force you want.
If you hear a little rubbing on the rotor, depending, that is normal for discs, the idea is to minimalize it and still have the desired breaking effect...
geez, if you want just call me at my house and I'll explain it, but don't cop no attitude, I'm just trying to help, and like I said in the other thread, send me your mailing address and I'll send you a fuse...
k i will tone down on the cussing its just kinda hard n wierd because at my home my parents are quite teh sailors (joke as of in they cuss alot) so im really brought up around it and ill shut up with the apologies i just really felt like crap because i found out boosted was offline when my comp siad otherwise and in like clearest terms, the first pic is a pic of the lever and the string is so loose it wont stay in the housing and with the brake pics they hardly even move lol (like 5mm)
