MTB Podcast – Episode 36 – Questions Pt. 1 – Why your brakes squeak, Leftys + More

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

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🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of your questions answered, with more coming soon! Topics covered in this episode: - Why your brake rotors howl - Do larger break rotors make more noise? - Why you should keep your saddle level - The benefits and reasons for running brake levers at different angles - What fork is best for Leadville? - Can you install a Lefty on non-Cannondale bikes? - Why the Lefty, even though it looks weird, is better than other forks - What's the deal with upside down forks? - How to train for Enduro (a basic overview) - Why your tire may be rubbing your chainstays - Carbon Wheels: Roval vs. Santa Cruz vs. ENVE

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0:00.0	Hey Hey everybody welcome to episode 36 of the Mountain Bike Podcast. I'm your host
0:18.7	Jonathan Lee with my co-host Stephen Lewis. How's it going?
0:21.0	Hi. Oh hey that was quick. Yeah. Yeah, how you doing? It's early. It's early. It's early. It's early. It's bright and early. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's what we got to do to give. We got to give the people what they want.
0:33.0	want donut holes I hear.
0:34.0	Yes, we're going to give them a podcast instead.
0:36.0	Yes, yes, one would say a compromise.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	So we actually mentioned that we are going to do a special episode that's just basically questions and that's going to be today
0:46.7	We had intended to make it longer, but work constraints and other things have us looking at doing this and making this hopefully we can we're
0:55.0	gonna get close to an hour but probably not gonna get to it so all the way to an
0:59.1	hour how dare you it happens you know so with that in mind Stephen this episode is just going to be questions
1:06.2	so let's just jump right into it sounds good question that's a
1:09.6	ridiculous question false That's debatable.
1:16.0	First one is from Shay says, hi guys, new to the podcast, but really enjoying it. And thanks
1:20.4	for doing an awesome job. I'm going through all the old episodes and loving them. My question involves breaks, big rear breaks in particular. I'm 38 years old Australian. G'dai mate. Nice, yeah. We can put another shrimp on the Barbie. Austria. Yeah, yeah, great.
1:34.8	And my hands get weak and numb towards the end of a gnarly enduro S trail. So I'm
1:38.7	looking for maximum power with minimal lever force. I think that what he's looking for. He's looking for
1:45.3	Saints with 200 millimeter rotors. That's what he's looking for. Yeah, yeah.
1:48.4	Yeah, fishing reels for sure. He says my A race is the Trans New Zealand 5 day enduro.
1:53.2	And for the 2018 race, I changed my bike from a Yeti SB 6C to a Santa Cruz High Tower
1:58.8	LT. In doing so, I went from 180 millimeter rotors front and rear to 203 front and rear nice Shimano Saints yeah huge
2:06.6	brakes I know so this guys knows what he's doing yeah since going to the 203 millimeter size
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