For this week I wanted to explain something and teach people about how brakes work in bikes. First I want to say that bike brakes work almost the same as car brakes except more heavy duty. So there are mainly 3 different types of bike brakes but well only go over 2 of them. The first one is the most common and they are called caliper brakes. They basically have a metal area near the inside of your tire and when you want to brake there is a piece of rubber or a material that grabs on the the tire and slows the spinning down. Its the same thing in a car almost where the break calipers grab on to part of the tire and slows it down. The second part is hydraulic disk brakes and those are the ones on my bike. They are the ones that work the best but there are also normal disk brakes they work because there is a metal thing like in the caliper brakes that something grabs onto but its in the middle of the tire, and hydraulic brakes involve oil and more complicated things.
How bike brakes work
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