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3 hours ago, scratcher said:

Hi guys. My buddies montesa 4ride...when applying front brake ye can feel a slight pulsating feeling thru the lever.? Wat causes this. Bikes brand new...only 10 miles on it..

Floating disc, does it move on the bobbins?

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Lift front wheel clear of ground, second person spins wheel and looks to see if disc appears to wobble. This may be very slight, but any disc movement will be translated back through the hydraulics to the brake lever. Brake judder/ shudder caused by warped/ buckled disc, incorrect caliper to fork leg assembly, sticking brake pads causes binding. If bike is brand new, don’t beat about the bush get it back to the selling dealer. Haven’t dropped bike so the it has landed in a way to hit disc?

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If it’s brand new it could have sat for some time with the pads in one position on the rotor.

But first thing is to lift the wheel and eyeball it for true as noted above. If it’s true, It’s twue! It’s twue! Sorry, Blazing Saddles just popped into my brain.

With clean dry hands feel the surface of the disk for rough spots. Careful though as new parts can be sharp. If it is a holdover from sitting too long you can probably just ride it until the rotor wears in. Otherwise dress very lightly with super fine emory cloth.

It’s also possible some numpty sprayed something on the rotor while cleaning or polishing the bike contaminating it except where the pads were. Brake cleaner and some riding will usually fix that.

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@these are on the 4 ride which has a different fork and caliper i believe. All the trials manufacturers models have these now so if it was a current 2018 model defect we would know about it? Certainly the original fault of hydraulic problems have gone away.

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