El Scorcho Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 No long term experience with anything MTB really, but for what it's worth my Elixir 1's have much better feel/modulation than the girlfriend's Shimano M505 (Deore?) brakes. Both are quiet and reliable - only done like 300km though.
LazyTrailRider Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 If you bought a car, would you get an Audi or an Alfa? It's been said that Alfas are very unique cars. No one Alfa has the same problems as another. Avids are a little more consistent, they all suck. banna and Caerus 2
D Vader Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Alfa problems in RSA were because they had left the country and back-up was provided Gotliebgat motors.No proper petrolhead would not have had an Alfa.Alfa is more like Formula ( Italian), they are for the connoisseur, but require some finesse
Paul Ruinaard Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 buy 180mm rotors and forget about the brakes.
Flowta Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 XT or Aviod Brakes??I fixed your question for you. XT, thank us all later Haha, you spelt Avoid wrong Wannabe, ChUkKy and Andyr249 3
ChUkKy Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Haha, you spelt Avoid wrong everything with those particular letters used is wrong, words, brakes... anything
Eldron Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 everything with those particular letters used is wrong, words, brakes... anything Shimano brakes.Avid breaks. *grin* Skylark, ChUkKy and rouxtjie 3
awesme Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 XT with Ice Tech rotors. Got it on both my bikes, love them, G Caerus 1
rouxtjie Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 (edited) ABBA...Anything But Blerrie Avidfixed Edited September 18, 2013 by rouxtjie
Skylark Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Current SLX (basically identical in all respects to the XTs apart from bite point adjuster) are quite amazing brakes. Best one finger levers, excellent feel and enormous power, they are apparently a little prone to leaking at the levers sometimes which means a lever/mc replacement but other than that probably the best value brakes avail.
Redlight Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Even the basic slx over topend avid ChUkKy 1
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