Sanding Discs

Sanding Discs

How To Stop Disc Brake Squeal

Hi everyone my name is Marc, and your here because you have had enough of one of the most annoying sounds shy of nails on a chalk board "Disc Brake Squeal" !  Well I feel the same way you do and I want to help all my fellow riders by getting the Squeal Out of your bicycles.

Squeal, Hum, Vibration, Chatter, etc can be caused by many things, here are a few:  Squeal is often caused by glazing, that's when sand dust gets baked into your pads and rotor and forms a thin layer of glass.  Some of us question whether or not bicycle rotors can get hot enough for this to occur like it does on cars and ATV's.

Contaminants are another cause. You never know what's in a stream you crossed or water you may have ridden through.

Stop Bicycle Disc Brake Squeal, Chatter and Hum with Squeal Out Disc Brake Treatment Paste

Salted winter roads are a major cause of disc brake squeal. Pad's that are heavy with metallic can cause it; pad's that are too hard of a compound are sometimes a cause. This list can go on and on so I won't bore you with all the theories.

I think we can all agree that when disc brakes do squeal, vibrate or hum that it is very unpleasant. Yes sometimes there will be a mechanical problem like pad misalignment, or maybe a return spring gets sucked between the pad and rotor.

In some cases one pad moves before the other and pushes the rotor into the caliper or into the caliper adapter bracket causing a metal to metal contact. Again there can be many mechanical causes that have nothing to do with contaminants or glazing.

However, a lot of the time it is a poor relation between the pad and rotor that causes the problem. Sometimes, brand new brakes will do it right off the bat.  It's not fun when you are a bike mechanic that just installed a brand new expensive set of disc brakes on a customer's bike and it hums and squeals upon a test ride.

Next thing you know your installing new pads and it doesn't help so you try a different rotor still no change then what.  A call to the manufacture for more pads to try, still maybe no relief. Now your customer is wondering why the bike is not ready and you can't explain why this is happening or how you're going to fix it.
Sound familiar to some of you?

I have been in this position many, many times so I share your frustration.  The bike in my video has a brand new set of brakes that were just installed and as you will see they have a nasty squeal right off the bat.  If it wasn't for Squeal Out this bike would not have left the shop.  I would have spent who knows how much time, trying to fix it.

It's not a temporary fix either; most bikes treated don't need a second treatment unless they get contaminated again.  So far we have a 100% fix rate at my bike shop for over 3 years, that's right 100% fix.  This product has saved our shop a ton of frustration to say the least and has put a smile on many customer faces.

Squeal Out is the only product of its kind. Say good bye to brake squeal.

 

About the Author

Marc Hanses is the owner of Squeal Out Disc Brake Anti-Squeal Treatment and can be reached at http://www.squealout.com

Squeal Out makes Brake Anti-Squeal Treatment for bicycles.

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