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PSA: Check your brake pad wear before you touch the barrel adjuster
Spent 2 hours last Saturday chasing a mushy front brake on my commuter, and the real issue was pads worn down to about 1mm. I kept cranking the barrel adjuster at the lever, which just made the cable tighter and the lever feel worse, and I even bled the line twice thinking it was air. Popped in a $9 set of pads from the shop on Grand Ave and the brake felt perfect in 10 minutes. Save yourself the hassle and pull the wheel first to check pad thickness before messing with cable tension. Has anyone else gone down this same rabbit hole on a ride that felt fine the week before?
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