Isn't it just SO annoying - !

[simongt]

When you spend a pleasant while fitting new brake blocks all round and remember to remind yourself the next morning that yes, you have nice new EFFICIENT brakes on your bike - then zoom off to work, hurtle down the road to the red lights - and hit the brakes in the manner that you've done so recently - ! Doh - !

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Did you get airborne?

 

[steve50]

or did you lock your wheels up and bald patch your tyres?

 

[PeteXXX]

Did you fit them the wrong way round and wonder what the 4 little blocks of black rubber were as they flew out in front of you as you failed to slow down when you hit the brakes?

 

[mr messy]

Was there a bright light and a wee glowing dude beckoning you follow?

 

[summerdays]

That's why I like disk brakes ... Known reaction every time.

 

[Easytigers]

Tell us more!

 

[Drago]

That's why I like disk brakes ... Known reaction every time.

Until they stop working...

Decent new pads need bedding in as well before they give their best, so the Op would likely have suffered the same phenomenon but in reverse.

 

[summerdays]

Until they stop working...

Decent new pads need bedding in as well before they give their best, so the Op would likely have suffered the same phenomenon but in reverse.

True

 

[Dave 123]

My usual trick is to not put the quick release lever back.... that's interesting!

 

[simongt]

Did you fit them the wrong way round and wonder what the 4 little blocks of black rubber were as they flew out in front of you as you failed to slow down when you hit the brakes?

Nope, but it DID happen to me many years ago when I were wee lad. Being Mr. Smartarse, I'd been playing about with what had been my older brother's bike; a Rudge Clubman, y'know, taking things off, putting them back on again, see how they worked etc.. But on this occasion I'd been playing around with the brakes. Later on belting up to a set of lights which of course changed a precisely the wrong moment, hit the brakes and watched the two front blocks jettison out of the shoes and carry on ahead of me, thus promptly halving my braking power. A salutory lesson in ensuring one always properly tightens up what one takes off when one puts it back on - !

 

[Deleted member 1258]

This is something I've done occasionally in the past, usually end up stopping short or end up standing the bike on its nose.