17-12-14, 11:46 AM
(15-12-14, 03:44 PM)PieEater link Wrote: [quote author=PaulSmith link=topic=15480.msg177367#msg177367 date=1418642355]
I would suggest you don't change them yet but put some serious practice into your braking and see if you cant improve your control and technique.
Putting 9-14 year old hoses under additional pressure through attempting to learn better braking could well end up in the hoses giving out and a trip to A&E. I don't see the point in spending time trying to improve braking techniques on a system that is already well past it's best and that will continue to degrade likely to the point of failure. The same amount of time would be much better spent acclimatising to an efficient braking system with new hoses and considerably less chance of failure.
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Huh? Tell me where you would rather they failed? On a quite piece of road with no traffic or danger if you dont stop as quick as you would like, or when shit is happeneing and you will die if you dont stop as quick as you would like? Hmmm, let me think about that one.
If you don't trust your hoses to do the job, what the foc are you doing riding the bike in the first place? And if you don't see the point of trying to improve your braking technique, you probably never will.