MTB Mechanic: How to Bleed Avid Disc Brakes

By Lennard Zinn
Published Jul. 10, 2011
Updated Sep. 29, 2011 at 2:31 PM UTC

Singletrack.com’s Lennard Zinn shows us how to cut the hose and bleed Avid disc brakes.

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Lennard Zinn

Lennard Zinn, our longtime technical writer, joined VeloNews in 1987. He is also a frame builder, former U.S. national team rider, and author of many bicycle books including Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn’s Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists. He holds a bachelor’s in physics from Colorado College. Readers can send brief technical questions to Ask LZ.