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Have Hope hydraulics on my FS.
Put Avid mechs on my hardtail a few days ago.
Initial impression: geeze!!!! these things are pretty good.
Well I still think they're pretty good but....
I'll confess to the occasional bout of irritation when fooling around with my Hope pads. "I mean, do
they *really* need cotter pins to hold these things in? These new Avids don't need any such
over-engineering...."
Tonite, I was playing around with swapping wheels on the bike with the Avids.
Turns out they're held in by a little spring steel clip.
Also turns out that Magilla The Gorilla here must've slipped a rear wheel in cockeyed enough to bend
said little clip....Took it down the driveway for a test ride and all-of-a-sudden, no rear
brake..... The pads fell out. Still got the clip, but no pads...
Oops!
My apoligies to Hope.
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PeteCresswell
Put Avid mechs on my hardtail a few days ago.
Initial impression: geeze!!!! these things are pretty good.
Well I still think they're pretty good but....
I'll confess to the occasional bout of irritation when fooling around with my Hope pads. "I mean, do
they *really* need cotter pins to hold these things in? These new Avids don't need any such
over-engineering...."
Tonite, I was playing around with swapping wheels on the bike with the Avids.
Turns out they're held in by a little spring steel clip.
Also turns out that Magilla The Gorilla here must've slipped a rear wheel in cockeyed enough to bend
said little clip....Took it down the driveway for a test ride and all-of-a-sudden, no rear
brake..... The pads fell out. Still got the clip, but no pads...
Oops!
My apoligies to Hope.
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PeteCresswell