How to disassemble disc brakes without making a mess

[@franciscosantiago4921]

Scratching up your shifters is a clever way to remove a little weight from your bike. ;)

[@wsbygt]

Nice upside!

[@seanmccuen6970]

it ain't.

[@FfortheT]

Aaahhhh, you stole the joke I wanted to make! 😂

[@FurySpyder]

My tip, if you intend using the frame again (or even if you are going to sell it on), when you pull the hoses (or cables) from the frame, attach a piece of thread at the top end, ie to the free end of the hose, and pull that through so it sticks out at either end. Stick a piece of masking tape at either end of the thread to stop it falling out of the frame. This will make re-installation much easier as you can use this to pull the new hose through 👍🏻 (or you could just use one of those fancy magnetic routing tools 😂)

[@Alex-mj2hq]

truely the best of all channels on youtube I could watch those videos for hours! thanks for sharing!

[@WowRixter]

I missed the GP Llama video on the pedals so this was super helpful

[@pierrex3226]

The logic of the threading is to tighten as you ride, for obvious safety reasons. So to unscrew, you move in the opposite direction of when you pedal. Bikes are largely logical.

[@im-on-youtube]

haha that Lama pedal video is def in the cycling how to hall of fame.

[@eleven-eleven-eleven]

I have rim brakes yet I still watched your video. Thanks!

[@lolbubs11111]

That GPLama video is the best. That's how I remove/install pedals, too.

[@don_sharon]

Always the highlight of my KZbin surfing. Excellent video again.

[@Kx0195]

Beautiful colour on that frame and great video

[@christopherhood9241]

Great to see your safe & well after all the sad news in the western World from Japan over the past few weeks. A good few tips - Happy new year by the way.

[@ridesofjapan]

Cheers! And happy new year, fingers crossed it will only improve from that horrible start.

[@dh7314]

I think about the gp lama video every time I have to go near pedal maintenance

[@TrevorOleniuk]

These videos are alway so relaxing.

[@Dropbar]

Thanks a lot mate, love those smart hacks. Wish you the best.

[@TheSpaceBrosShow]

great video, ill definitely be rewatching later

[@MHT90s]

Eeehm, I always cut the hose close to the caliper or unscrew the hose from the caliper and then squeeze a tooth pick in both ends, the yellow plug in the caliper of course, you know what I mean. Pull out the cable and even re-install the same without refilling the entire system, just a bleed. Worked everytime like a charm. No mess in the frame or on the floor.

[@ridesofjapan]

Tooth pick! That's perfect! I'm running out of old valve cores! ;) As for keeping the fluid in, that's valid. Personally I always take the opportunity to refresh the brake fluid as well... but I have one of those big 1L shimano mineral oil bottles so I'm not running out anytime soon. Cheers!

[@colinswan786]

i'm eagerly awaiting your lever refurb video! I have a got a pretty wrecked one from a fall which I've been meaning to fix/refurb but have not really found a good youtube video to help! Cheers

[@NelsonSherry]

Great content and presentation, as usual. Love the presta cap idea. Thanks! I don't drain brakes unless the fluid needs to be changed. I just cut the hoses as long as possible and plug them with a short piece of shishkabob skewer. Then, if I'm lucky, I don't even have to bleed the brakes after putting them back together.

[@ridesofjapan]

Cheers! skewer or toothpick is a better solution then a the valve cap. Wish I had tough of it :)

[@wsbygt]

Crashed Dura-Ace shifters...for now on you unlocked the "badass" achievement at the cafe stops. That sucks but on the whole you got lucky the derailleur is sitting on the right side. Cheers and ride safe!!

[@ridesofjapan]

"derailleur is sitting on the right side" That was my first thought as well :)

[@martinhotan8946]

Nice work - yes the Presta valve caps and stems come in handy - do not use a compressor to hose out the rest of the brake fluid though - you might screw up the seals

[@dtolios]

Forgive my ignorance, but...if you've already routed your frame with hoses that are still perfectly fine...and since cutting them even 1in at a time will probably lead to lengths being too short for the next bike of the same size = you are going to buy another set of hoses...what are you really missing by leaving the hoses in this frame, and be good for the next time you will be mounting most modern groupsets from the same manufacturer? Even if you won't need these hoses anymore, just leave them in for the next buyer of that frame...if he doesn't want them, he will use them to guide his routing thorough and make routing new hoses a breeze (by comparison). Sure, hoses are not free: shimano charges $30-40 per wheel for their banjo variants + $5-6 for the threaded compression fitting @ briefter end that will stay on the handlebar side, but in the scheme of things, this seems the less wasteful of choices.

[@pedallingsquaresNZ]

The gp llama video changed my life when I saw it

[@ridesofjapan]

Agreed! It’s the only “things I wish I knew”-type cycling videos that actually contained things I wish I knew before I saw it ;)

[@ismailbouk]

I don’t empty the mineral oil from the hose/caliper i cut 1cm from the shifter and insert small screw in the hose so when pulled in the frame/fork doesn’t spill

[@chrisrigoni]

Thank You 🙏✌

[@kyleadammason]

Any chance you can share a link to the lovely tote/bin at the end of the video? 11:03

[@ridesofjapan]

Just a cheap box from my local hardware store, noting special. No link sorry.

[@kyleadammason]

@@ridesofjapan Understand - not seen anything like it in the US so I thought I'd ask.

[@ChristopherHawkins-j5m]

Oh thank goodness for you! I am stuck in my house bored af !

[@saj78769]

Thank you, very useful

[@vincentprost5623]

Watch out with the ceramic pistons. I had severals issues with them by storing dried out calipers.

[@alogli]

Thanks for this. Good one 😊

[@poudreuse8391]

Thanks!

[@LTBlightthebeam]

Any concerns with reusing that rocket blower for camera equipment like blowing sensors? Feels like the suction from blowing the brake lines might draw in some aerosolized mineral oil and potentially transfer it on your camera equipment

[@ridesofjapan]

I have a few of them so no. But that was the reason I used the straw as the “intermedium”.

[@Ninja_Revenge]

I would get Growtac Equal, there are 12sp DA shifters for rim brake still.

[@JayLato]

Much appreciated!

[@moxerl]

I will soon be changing integrated handlebars which will require removing the brake cables from the STI (but obviously not from the brakes). Any suggestions for this procedure? Can I unplug the brake cables when filled without making too much mess? And if so, can I use a plug (eg your DIY suggestion) and then fiddle it through the new handlebar? This would protect me from having to do a full re-bleed.

[@ridesofjapan]

Problem is if you only unplug the hose, you can’t remove the hose flange nut making it nearly impossible to do any internal routing. Going from external to internal routing could also require longer hoses… but hard to say without trying. You could try and remove the hose, then cut it as close to the olive and insert as possible, remove the flange nut and plug the hose. If you have the yellow Shimano plugs I showed in the video, that would help keep the fluid in the shift levers.

[@moxerl]

@@ridesofjapan Very helpful, thanks so much!

[@tristancolaizzi1251]

Can you please make a video showing us an overview of all the bikes in your fleet?

[@moritzthomas-k8j]

Perfect your films. What bike stand are you using? Thanks.

[@ridesofjapan]

Feedback sports

[@bikecommuter24]

The local auto parts store have brake bleed kits, basically a bottle and a pump, yourcan use to pump to remove the fluid out of the brake system, the low cost ones will work fine for bicycles you don't the big fancy metal ones make for automobiles.

[@kenschwarz8057]

How do you dispose of the old brake fluid? (The Shimano mineral oil.)

[@thomasblak5315]

If I only watched this yesterday as I stripped down two bikes and got mineral oil everywhere. Oh well, next time. Great tips.

[@philipp-christopherdeeke2210]

Great hacks, thanks!

[@jonathanzappala]

I went down from an expansion joint on a bridge that went diagonally across the road last month. Thankfully nobody saw, and my bike only got bar tape damage. I can’t say the same for myself 😂. Elbow, knee, ripped tights.

[@pigeonpoo1823]

Them and tram / train lines. Im nearly as good as Richard Hammond at crashing bikes and cars😢

[@Kx0195]

I went down on some invisible moss on brick paving just last week. Not a good surface to have as a cycle lane 🤣 Fucking nightmare coming off, mainly the pure embarrassment when people are around 🤣

[@jonathanzappala]

@@pigeonpoo1823 It was basically the same as a tram line, not as deep, but deep enough.

[@pierrex3226]

It's funny that you feel embarrassed when falling. Most human reaction is "oh shit is he ok and does he need help?", not "what a fucking loser". Some people suck, but most people don't.

[@pigeonpoo1823]

@@pierrex3226 I think you've badly misunderstood what he was trying to say.

[@ex201]

What is that great box of r2-bike at the end? 😮

[@ridesofjapan]

Just a cheap storage box from hardware store.

[@BenjaminStone-s9c]

This is great advertisement to stick with rim brake :)

[@savagepro9060]

4:01 when you've zipped up after the urinal engagement and drip a little into your boxers!

[@ridesofjapan]

That's just physics ;)

[@stevenpike7530]

Excellent…

[@Timtheranger]

The easiest way to remember how to undo a bottom bracket is to remember that if the bearings seized, the bottom bracket would undo itself when pedalling forward normally

[@ChristianBorrman]

You forgot to add that while doing this make sure you have handsfree on phone to answer any calls from the guys… remember bros before hose :)

[@mesomaxl]

Great jazzy piano tunes! What's the record? :)

[@ridesofjapan]

Sorry, don't have that song within arms reach at the moment, but all music I use is from Epidemic Sounds.

[@ΑλέξανδροςΓεκίλης]

Sorry my friend to comment on your video but Shimano has special yellow or white plugs that you fit on your shifters and no spill happens. These come from the factory filled with oil. Cutting the hose is unnecessary.

[@Pratalax]

don't want water vapour in the calipers/hoses? so....don't bleed your brakes in a japanese summer then ;D Funnily enough the only thing protecting astronauts from the vacuum of space on the ISS is actually just a few o-rings. They have protective shutters they need to open and close over the viewing port, which are actuated by hand.

[@tom10crafted]

"What the hell I am doing" - is like majority of the time when thinking thumbnails :D

[@stevenr5149]

Or take the plunge and go for cable actuated hybrid brakes. No more conundrums.

[@nikolaosstavrou5327]

Huston we have a problem the vale is stuck!

[@jamble7k]

what's the plan with this frame then or is that top secret 😮

[@ridesofjapan]

It' getting build up again in time.

[@yjk4833]

New gravel frame on the way? 👀

[@ridesofjapan]

No no... hold your horses now :)

[@HarishChouhan]

I’ve never seen you use titanium bolts on your bike. Did I miss a video or you had bad experience?

[@ridesofjapan]

@@HarishChouhan I use ti and aluminium bolts where I can… you can see that on my custom ti bike for example. I tend to stay away from overpriced bike specific ”ti bolt kits” though

[@HarishChouhan]

@@ridesofjapan Yup they are def. expensive and in some cases not even Ti or just cheap quality. I decided to upgrade mine, mostly because I live in Da Nang, Vietnam which is sandy, humid and next to the sea. My sweat does not help either. I have to replace the bolts often or else they just turn to cheese :)

[@lazyac_]

hope you're fine with this crash. Don't mind replacing shifter scratched, we don't care, is to much effort and money, even if it's cheaper than acceptance therapy ^^.

[@ChristianBorrman]

what’s that stem btw? ah see it’s allied’s own… nice

[@_xnk7257]

Does anyone know what bike repair stand that is?

[@marcelginter209]

feedback sports, sprint bike repair stand

[@ridesofjapan]

Correct

[@JibbaJabber]

Noice💪

[@Hermod_Hermit]

Left pedal, left threaded. Right pedal, right threaded. Quite easy to remember.

[@OutThere42]

Even easier: “back off”. (Turn wrench towards back of the bike to get the pedal off)

[@savagepro9060]

Bleeding? We, Rim Brakers, are laughing to death!

[@dh7314]

Change the record

[@savagepro9060]

@@dh7314 yes, perhaps chorus or centaur or veloce?🤭🤭🤭

[@hanshalkes4978]

I think the word for water you were looking for is moisture.

[@ridesofjapan]

That’s it 👍

[@alexanderpavlyuk8052]

✌🏻

[@dangrows_za4798]

Condensation is the word you're looking for

[@Alex97459]

Why all our biked are nude during thé winter ? Need some new challenge or test our mechanical évolution capacity ? A pleasure to watch our stories.

[@TheIdeas4life]

LOL OCD box ^^

[@EditioCastigata]

No need for a bleeding kit: It's less than 17mm of brake fluid in the system. Instead of a bottle, you could use two syringe bodies (

[@seanmccuen6970]

disassembly is easy, but how the fk do you get ALL the air out of current generation Shimano brake lines/components??

[@bradallen8643]

What are you going to do with the damaged shifter? Shimano doesn’t make spare parts so you need a donor shifter and smarts to swap out. It’s difficult to do so Shimano continue to rip off riders with exorbitant prices for new ones.

[@ridesofjapan]

Yep, will try to clean it up without needing to replace too much… don’t know if it’ll work but if it does I’ll make a video about it.

[@seanwise7464]

Easiest method is to have RIM BrAkes. 😁

[@pigeonpoo1823]

💪

[@ymyk86]

There's even a better and easier way to remove pedals - GC Performance video

[@scottlstone]

Vapour

[@87togabito]

Here’s something easier Step 1: take the bike to the bike shop Step 2: pay the mechanic Step 3: have a cup of coffee at the cafe and read a nice book Step 4: pay and collect the bike If that fails, use your spare bike or just sell the bike and buy a new one. I sold my sl7 because I didn’t want to bother with the sram groupset problems and just bought a new bike with shimano.

[@savagepro9060]

As per physics and biology water coming from your mouth via your breath has changed form. It's VAPOR! When it condenses unto something it is moisture!

[@IdolOracle]

Drink water and peas?

[@dakalla]

Thank you! Great tip! @gplama

[@oheso]

Great tips here! @FurySpyder beat me to the only comment I was going to make.