front brake problem

kango
kango Posts: 28
edited January 2009 in MTB workshop & tech
after riding it today i notcied the headset was abit loose.so i got it home tightened it up and then realised the front brake had become stiff. i can turn the wheel but it doesn't rotate freely.
they are hayes 9's.
are there any adjustments i can make to the brake?
do you think it would have somethin to do with adjusting the triple clamps?
or just a change is temp?

cheers lads

Comments

  • Wappygixer
    Wappygixer Posts: 1,396
    when you say stiff do you mean its catching the disc?
  • kango
    kango Posts: 28
    yer the brake is clamping on the disc.
    i can hear is rubbing
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    reset the caliper or push the pistons in a bit. (if they have been moved in while the wheel has been out of the fork).
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • kango
    kango Posts: 28
    ive just had another look at it whilst the bike has been in my garage and it seems to be ok again.
    must have been somethin with the heat of my kitchen.
  • davree
    davree Posts: 93
    I have had this with hayes 9's on my old stinky!!

    It was sat next to a radiator in the cellar, next time I went to get it out the brakes had jammed on so I left it.

    Next time I went to get it the heat from the radiator had built up that much pressure in the brake system the bleed caps burst and brake fluid was everywhere. :shock:

    It must be to do with the fluid they use!!
    '08 Stinky and an old Saracen X-tort Single speed

    "It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century"