If your brakes are squeaking or feel soft, don't head to your local bike shop, you can fix this. Brakes can be one of the simplest bike repairs for home mechanics. That is, if you have caliper brakes ...

Hope brakes have a bleed port (although not a threaded one as with SRAM and Formula brakes) on the caliper, but there is no ...

Brake pads (or the cartridges that hold them) can come out of alignment, so check they are aligned with the centre of the rim and, unlike this one, follow the curve of it. Turn the Allen key bolt anti ...

Checking and, if necessary replacing your brake pads, is an essential part of bike maintenance. If you fail to do this, you risk brake failure, expensive damage to your rim or potentially having an ...

Disc brakes are now in the majority on road bike builds, so here are the best mechanical and hydraulic options around When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Checking and, if necessary replacing your brake pads, is an essential part of bike maintenance. If you fail to do this, you risk brake failure, expensive damage to your rim or potentially having an ...