Nope could not be further from the truth. Just a frustration with people who sign up, ask a question, then disappear without engaging with the responses. It would be a bit like someone asking you for directions, then walking off without saying anything further, when you are mid response.
Imo, folks have stuff to do, sometimes a minor project like this goes to the back burner till the weekend.
On top of that, the forum has not been showing alerts to members, so maybe the OP thinks there aren't any responses yet.
Back on topic, many years ago I bought my Genesis Tour de Fer from a well known independent bike shop here in Glasgow.
He let me do a test ride round the park, I told him I liked the bike but it didn't brake properly - mechanical disk brakes.
He told me I needed to embed the pads. Many miles later of embedding the bike still would not stop properly.
I had another bike with hydraulics, so I knew what disk brakes can do.
Anyway, I got fed up, got another mechanic to change them for a new set of hydraulic brakes, perfect braking ever since.
I gave the old set away for free to someone on here, a member from Glasgow.
A couple of weeks later he told me that the brakes my bike was sold with were indeed pants, he could not get them to work either, ended up putting them in the recycling bin of a bike charity.
