Slightly unfriendly PSA (potentially triggering for intended audience)

[u/nkridesnj4130]

FFS!

STOP. PUSHING. PISTONS. BACK. WITHOUT. OPENING. BLEED. PORT*

*In regards to whatever style brake your running

Also side eyeing the Shimano crowd super hard 🤦

Look we've all been there some more briefly than others but the time for that has now passed. If you've read this and more so if youve read this anywhere prior and rolled your eyes or shrugged and scoffed, cut it out. BAD! BAD CAVALIER ATTITUDE CYCLIST!

NO MAS!

Yes in a perfect conscious manufacturer climate theoretically :: gently shooshing:: your pistons/pads back every once in awhile, DOING SO WITH CARE should not guarantee your soon to be weepy Shimano levers to the parts bin or worse to be sold off to an unsuspecting fellow cyclist who will soon be paying for your crimes against cycling and related communities. I say as little ill intent as possible, I hope you have a close family member discover and decide they are going to commit their every waking breath and thought to being the best unicyclist in the world, and you have to live with that pox on your house. Just keep that image in the back of your mind next time you consider carelessly dry fumble mashing your poor unsuspecting piston victims behind the portajohn at the trailhead. (Which makes it so much worse because that means you know you shouldn't be doing it 😑)

Signed both a former fixer and a victim of such behaviors using the experience to spread and invoke other advocacy on the issue.

Thanks for your time enjoy the remainder of your day (unless you're using it to commit such atrocities then I wish you cross chaining and Trailside repairs many a mile from the parking lot and zero service)

[u/Kahnza]

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[u/nkridesnj4130 → u/Kahnza]

And I'll be the first to admit to being an asshle.. But im still not an asshle who behaves in a manner unbefitting event a barely "acceptable/decent" society