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Assuming these are cable actuated disc brakes: check the cable tension. You did be able to adjust tension by using a Barrell adjuster on your brake lever. This looks like a knob between the lever body and the cable housing. Rotating it should increase (or decrease) tension.
Can you describe 'loose' more precisely? Do you mean you can pull the lever too close to the bar. Or something else?
What did you do to adjust it that fixed it?
Thanks, will give that a try.
Yes, it comes too close to the bar, so I can't brake properly.
I re-adjusted the brake calipers, so they would be closer to the disc again.
Be careful with the cable tension barrel adjuster. As you turn it, watch the brake caliper: is there is any movement, stop turning the caliper and back off.
It should only be used to remove slack in the cable on installation - it shouldn't be used to adjust the brakes.
This is because a disc brake caliper only has a few mm of travel. So if use of the barrel adjuster "removes" 1mm of that travel, you end up with far less modulation available.