How To Fix Squeaky Mountain Bike Disc Brakes. Squeaky brakes are a nuisance but can also impact your overall bike safety. If you ride your bike across puddles of water your brakes automatically start to squeak.
A quick trail fix for this is to use use your camelbak to spray some water over the brakes and rotor followed by a handful of sand. Contaminants such as oil from our fingers when you accidentally touch the pads or rotor cause the pads to lose grip on the rotor which can cause vibrations leading to squealing. This may occur when spray lubricants have been used on a bicycle with disc brakes and some of it gets on the rotors or pads great care is needed if you do use such products.
Before attempting to silence a squeak make sure your wheel is properly seated in the dropout of your front fork or rear part of the frame.
If you ride your bike across puddles of water your brakes automatically start to squeak. A disc brake system on a mountain bike would be similar to one on any style of bicycle. If you need to change the brake pads I published an article listing the best disc brakes. The causes of noisy disc brakes are much the same as it is for rim brakes.
