Originally Posted by
Litespud
What bike/brakes are these? With no disrespect, but a cheap bike with cheap brakes means that the brakes may never work particularly well. It could well be that there's nothing left but to replace the brakes, in which case dual-piston would be the way to go.
It's a Trek 3500. The more I look at this bike the more I hate it. The front fork has a conventional downwards opening, so hard braking could force the hub downwards. The brake levers have no reach adjustment- why would they omit this on a kid/youth bike? The headset uses caged ball bearings instead of catridge bearings. Good job saving $3, Mr. accountant. The handlebars is steel. Must have saved another $2 there.