My friend Bobby said earlier (and I quote): "if I were embarking on a multi-day tour away from civilization, I'd have a lightweight, compact kit with me that would get me through any potential jam with my brakes"
Would you like him to describe the contents of this kit? I'll wager that DOT brake fluid is one of the items. Correspondingly, I bet you and Jan would carry a brake cable in your kit, since brake cables also do not grow on trees (so to speak). On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:08:49 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 12/18/2013 02:56 PM, Montclair BobbyB wrote: > > Shimano disc brakes use a special mineral oil (which comes in a small, > easy to carry sealed plastic bottle). Other brakes use DOT brake fluid... > Easy to find, even in the wilds. BB > > > > Perhaps we have a different understanding of "wilds." If you are out > there with Jan on one of those abandoned logging roads in the Cascade > Mountains fifty miles from the nearest town, I doubt you are going to > find many caches of DOT brake fluid concealed in the forest. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
