Oh dear. Foiled again.
Removed the rear brake stripped it down and cleaned it out and it wasn't as bad as I had expected. Popped it all back together and... no improvement. Another hastily booked ticket back to Belgium and that's the bike-mending budget gone until after xmas.
Same symptom, very light contact between pads and disks but the wheel turns freely. Just like it has since the day I picked it up more than seven years ago. Just like it does on the front. 15-20 miles of hard riding and it binds. I'm a bit stumped, honestly. Mechanically, it all seems fine. I have changed the fluid twice, second time with brand new fluid from a sealed bottle. Deeper investigation to follow when I have the time. Say in January...
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Arr crap Mike, sorry to read about the bikes rear brake being a little PITA.
Had you left for Belgium when it started playing up again?
Happily, no. I made sure I did a few test runs and it was around the 30km mark that the binding started. And that was just as I got back home... :) (Got to look for the positive, yes?)
Thanks for asking.
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