[email protected] wrote:
> Vee wrote:
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>>jim beam wrote:
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>>>e.b.c. pads are great & come in 3 different flavors. using them on
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>>avid
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>>>disk brakes though??? hideous things. sure they stop, but they
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> have
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>>>abysmal modulation.
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>>I think they have adequate modulation. It took me one ride to adapt
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> to
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>>Avids after using Shimano XT discs for a while.
>>What's ridiculous is the pain of servicing hydraulic disc brakes.
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> Also
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>>abysmal is walking your bike down hills after your hydraulic brake
>>poops out. Downright dumb are the mounting brackets for non-Avid
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> disc
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>>brakes, which require expensive facing tools or tiny spacers and lots
>>of patience. Avids modulate well enough, and overall they're much
>>better than any hydraulic disc brake I've ever used or serviced.
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> Agreed. Avids modulate better than any rim brake I've ever used, and
> not much worse than the hydraulics I've tried.
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> But set-up and maintenance are head and shoulders above any brake I've
> ever used. And they are quite inexpensive.
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> Maybe the ones jim tried were not bedded in properly. It takes about
> 30 good stops to bed in the pads well, and until they are bedded in,
> they can be a bit disappointing.
avid said that when i called them too. very nice folk on the phone, but
after several free replacement sets for "faulty" pads, i gave up on
them. and they required /constant/ wear adjustment.
i ended up with a set of xt hydraulics for $198 the pair. they're
fabulous. i've been riding them for nearly 3 years now & i've never had
a moment's trouble. they bled easily, they've never required
re-bleeding even after pad changes, and their modulation is superb.
only thing you have to do is replace the pads periodically but wear's
not a problem because they're completely self-adjusting.
for me, i'll take rim brakes over avids, any day.
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> E.P.
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