Squeeking front brake help please.

[OxygenJames]

Hi there,

I've been riding an Oxygen e-mate for 3 months now and generally very happy with it - the range is excellent (70 miles once) and quality generally excellent. One thing cropped up yesterday - no idea why - the front brake started to give off a pretty loud squeek but only when the wheel rotates very slowly - once you start going it goes away - but slow down to almost crawling and it comes back.

As an x (for now) motorcyclist (we wont talk about why) I would usually think this is because the pads were installed without some copper grease between the back of the pad and the piston - or cheap pads were used. But then the brakes on the bike I have now dont have hydraulic fluid driving them so I'm not sure if thats the problem here of if that makes any difference.

My general plan was to strip it all down this morning and take a look at put grease behind the pad - but if anybody here has any other thoughts I would much appreciate that.

Thanks.

 

[JuicyBike]

Your rotor may well be greasy. Try cleaning with some detergent.

 

[Cakey]

Being a cytech 3 bike bunny , my 1st look would be pads , sometimes the disk rotor goes slightly out of true. Also depending what pads sintered or organic , can cause little sqeaks. I tend to clean down as normal then run them down a hill light apply to warm them up. Also you can pick bits of grit etc and it squeaks. Muc off is pretty good to remove crap but will sqeal a bit after.

 

[Cakey]

Also check both pistons are moving , you can see this without moving wheel

 

[OxygenJames]

Thanks for all your thoughts - I just spent half an hour and its sorted now.

Basically it just needed adjusting - a few twiddles here and a few twiddles there and no more squeak. I must say compared to the only two other brakes I've played around with (ie changed the pads) - being a Yamaha R1 and a XJR Jag - working on my brakes today was VERY EASY! (and you can do it in the front room too which is nice!).

Thanks for your responses.

 

[Mussels]

Also check both pistons are moving , you can see this without moving wheel

Both? I've not seen that on cable operated brakes.