Posts by Anthony Young5

Hey there!

So, my new bike finally showed up yesterday. Right after I got it all assembled (it was shipped to me from overseas), I noticed something weird. The rear brake pads (those Shimano BR-M445 hydraulics) have this huge gap between the pad and the rotor—like almost 1mm on each side. Meanwhile, the front brake bites "immediately." The pads are sitting right against the rotor with zero air in the lines, so as soon as I pull the lever, I feel that resistance right away.
But when I use the rear brake, nothing happens. The lever pulls almost all the way to the handlebar before it actually starts braking, and even then, it’s pretty weak.
Is there a way to adjust these brakes? And if so, how do I do it?
This is actually my first bike with hydraulic disc brakes, so please bear with me here.

Thanks!

So, like the thread says, I picked up a laptop recently and loaded up Windows 7 x64 on it.
Here’s what I'm running:
Intel Core 2 duo P8700 2.5 GHz, 3MB L2
4 GB DDR3
500 GB HDD 5400 rpm
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 m

After a little while, I noticed something weird. When I'm browsing the web or reading PDFs, the computer starts choking—maybe it's trying to cache everything at once? If I leave a document open to do something else and then come back to it, it happens every single time...
For example...
I'm using AutoCAD 2010 and it feels pretty sluggish. My buddies at college have half the RAM and much weaker processors than me, yet AutoCAD runs perfectly smooth on their machines without any hiccups...
The thing is, while I'm working, I have to check some registers for my classes, so I'll pop open a PDF. As soon as I start reading, the whole system just freezes up for a second. Like, if I grab the "hand tool" in Adobe Acrobat and try to pan through the doc, the machine stutters hard. It'll hit this half-second glitch where even my music cuts out before snapping back to normal, and then suddenly the PDF works fine again. But unfortunately, AutoCAD is still being a total pain...

Is this happening just because I'm running 64-bit Windows??

If you want to see the full specs for this laptop...

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668356.php