Originally Posted by
dvai
I got my project one Domane. Comes with disc brakes, which is new for me.
Congrats!
Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Pay attention to the braking early on - the brake pads need to bed in to the rotors, and the braking may not be great for the first few rides. In my experience, metallic pads are far worse out of the box; resin pads are pretty good when new, but will still improve a bit.
I'll add that something you can do to help bed the pads is just run up and down the street, get going pretty quick, and do some max braking efforts. Maybe do this a half-dozen times or until braking improves. It should help accelerate the bedding process. It will also give you a good idea of your available braking performance and how it will feel.
I also experience (on my MTB at least) with resin pads, occasionally they will glaze over and I have to remove the pads and knock off the glaze with some ~200 grit sandpaper. I know I need to do this when the brakes get both ineffective and
very noisy. You may never experience this, but just FYI.