Different hub brake behavior when standing still and when moving I recently switched to a bike having hub (roller) brakes and hub dynamo, so I am pretty new at this kind of brakes.





I have noticed that if I pull the front brake lever when moving, the brake engages almost immediately, but if I pull the lever when I am standing still the lever goes almost freely until the end of its range before I feel some sort of resistance.

Is this a normal behavior for this type of brakes?
After the behavior got worse, with even a sudden and complete blockage (luckily at low speed), I took the bike at the LBS.

The brake was not properly remounted after a maintenance, removing it and placing it back solved the issue.