| So, when I bought my first bike with disc brakes | | | | the caliper a little ways side to side. If your caliper |
| they started rubbing after the first ride. It was | | | | does not have an adjustment bolt on the side of it, |
| driving me insane so I took it to a bike shop and | | | | this is the way you have to adjust them. |
| asked them if it was a problem. They said "ah no, no | | | | Fortunately, most disc brakes have bolts on the |
| problem. It will go away after a while." So this didn't | | | | caliper that allow you to move the brake pads in or |
| make me too happy so I looked into it and found | | | | out. The caliper will be marked close to the bolt telling |
| out how to fix the problem. | | | | you which way to rotate it to move the brake pad in |
| Disc brakes can be sensitive and the caliper can | | | | either direction. You can also use this adjustment to |
| move around when you hit some bumps on the trail. | | | | make the brake feel tighter or looser, but be careful, |
| Fortunately its not hard to fix. Most calipers are | | | | once your brake pad wears down far enough, if you |
| attached to the fork with two bolts, and the bolt | | | | adjust the pad too far inwards you could rub your |
| holes on the caliper are bigger than the diameter of | | | | rotor on the steel of the caliper. That is just about |
| the bolt. Allowing you to loosen the bolts and move | | | | the only problem you can run into with that. |