Temu mtb brakeset

[droo]

26 minutes ago, MORNE said:

id buy MT501 4pots before temu trickstuffs

If I was shopping for brakes on a budget, these would be top of my list as well. Price / performance ratio is better than anything else I've seen.

[Jono]

14 minutes ago, droo said:

If I was shopping for brakes on a budget, these would be top of my list as well. Price / performance ratio is better than anything else I've seen.

Is that because their price is better than M6120’s or they perform better?

[droo]

Just now, Jono said:

Is that because their price is better than M6120’s or they perform better?

It's the cheapest decent 4 pot brake on the market, and not much difference in performance between it and the M6120 - not at my level of riding anyway.

[Jimmy 2.0]

34 minutes ago, droo said:

If I was shopping for brakes on a budget, these would be top of my list as well. Price / performance ratio is better than anything else I've seen.

+1 to this

[Andymann]

1 hour ago, MORNE said:

since the topic is about cheap brakes i’d like to share some recent experience.

So my local were kind enough to organise me a demo bike while I await my one way flight overseas. Its mid level so has deore groupset, MT501 4-pot brakes and performance level fox suspension. Nothing fancy…borderline NOT peasant level.

Having ridden top end everything for most of the last few years on my own bikes…i’ll say that i was pleasantly…no, shocked at how good this bike is on trail. Yes im missing the finer damper settings, i kniw what i want by now and i cant get it from something with just open, mid, closed on it. But i put it in semi closed and just gooied…and the thing took it in its stride. 

now for the brakes. Im tall, ride XXL bikes, so sh!t brakes are i instantly noticeable. These 4-pot MT501’s are amazingly good brakes and im sure they cost relatively nothing. I know you can buy deore m6100 4-pots locally for under R3k a set if you know where to look. Amazing bang for buck…and i havent ridden shimano brakes for 2y now. I just instantly felt at home and they offer i credible power and just enough modulation. 
 

The whole experience had me thinking how we always want the best - because reasons. I’ll maintain that proper suspension will still make the biggest difference on any bike, the difference is that big if properly set up. 

But man, you don't NEED dominions, transmission or carbon. I’m willing to guarantee that nothing from anyone else offered in the price range of MT501 or 6100 even comes close to the same level of performance on offer. You certainly dont even need XT. The value proposition of SLX makes everything else look silly. You must just be willing to ket your own hangups go.

TLDR:

id buy MT501 4pots before temu trickstuffs

I'll definitely second your experience.  When I was in my 20's everything had to be the best - I even fitted my IDT Giant OCR (not even a TCR) which never left the trainer with Campag Chorus because my Race bike had Campag Chorus.  Crazy.  Then I went for a holiday in Portugal and rented a Berg MTB - think it was a Decathlon special back in the day - Normal Deore with cable disk brakes.  And I'll be damned if it didn't shift and brake as well as my XT bike back home.  And since then, and of course as I have got older and probably care a bit less, Campag has made way for 105, brand name has made way for unbranded carbon and I don't find myself justifying R8k brakes when I am convinced I can get by with the ones I have.

My oil should arrive today so Friday is the big brake mission!