Holy Cow – I can’t Stop! I was trying out the brakes on my Huffy – just looking at them I knew I was going to have to work on them. My little ride down the driveway nearly caused me to trash…Absolutely no brakes at all. Luckily, I like working on MTBs even...
I’m in the process of fixing an older Huffy Mountain Bike. Someone had put it out at the curb for trash pickup. Lots of stuff is wrong with it, so I’m going to fix it up and document the journey calling it the “Huffy Resurrection” The v brakes are in bad...
One of the most significant areas of misinformation and confusion about mountain bikes is the braking system. There are two primary choices: V brakes and disc brakes. To choose which one will work for you, you need to understand how these two differ. The significant...
You likely enjoy riding at speed. I know when I ride, I like to ride fast, and sometimes that means I need to brake quickly too. However, when to bleed mountain bike brakes was something I wanted to know, as I had never run with them before. Hydraulic braking systems...
Disc brakes on mountain bikes add expense. 18 years ago when I bought my first mountain bike one of the main purchasing considerations was how much it would cost. Without knowing it, I actually bought a pretty good bike for the time, a Gary Fisher Marlin. It was a...
