About Bicycle Brake Parts

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Will from the Outspokin Bicycle and Sports Shop located in Newbury, New Hampshire. Today we're going to talk about brake parts. Now in essence there's a two types of brakes. One would be called a, a pincher style. You might see something down here on the frame, a cable running to it and they just basically clamp on the rim. This is silver surface here and they just bind on the rim causing friction and slowing down. On this particular case, we're looking at a hydraulic disc system and when we look at it, much like a car or a, more importantly a motorcycle type of, of brake package. So here we have your rotor and this is the brake caliber. The same basic principle; here's some brake pads here that just grab this rotor and that binding is what slows the wheel bound. This is actually a hydraulic tube that follows the whole frame right up to your brake lever. So even on the old pincher style which is still out there and use quite prevalently; we have a brake lever, then we have a steel cable down to the binders. In this case the brake lever pushes the piston which in turn moves hydraulic fluid which clamps the brake pad on the rotor. So brake parts are consist of brake lever, brake mechanism. And those are the brake parts of a bicycle."