I got out for my 6:30 am ride on Tuesday morning, as promised in my post about getting to bed earlier and waking up earlier. It was great to ride with Chris, despite the fact that we the sun hadn’t even started to rise when we were heading out:
Since I’m never up at 6:30am, I didn’t realize that the sun isn’t up that early! My bad! It was pretty cold, but as soon as the sun peeked out it started to warm up. I’ve been having problems keeping my Bontrager Single Pivot brakes that came with my Madone in adjustment recently. I literally have to adjust them almost every time I ride and sometimes they don’t stay for even the distance of a singe ride. Every bike mechanic I has talked to tells me they see adjustment problems with this brake set all the time and that there’s no good fix. Not great for racing, or trying to keep up with Chris who is much faster than me! I literally biked as hard as I could for an awful 50 miles and still couldn’t stay with him. My rear brake rubbed for approximately 90% of the ride, despite stopping and trying to adjust it. It was the longest, most exhausting 50 miles I’ve had in a long time.
I’m headed to spring break in the mountains in a week and I didn’t want to deal with this problem for the duration of the trip so I ordered a set of SRAM brakes through QBP that should be in before I leave next week.
I’m looking forward to putting this problem that has plagued me for almost a year behind me and say good riddance to single pivot brakes. If anyone out there is contemplating a Trek bike, get one! Just make sure you swap out the brakes and save yourself the headache.
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