martas with big rotors
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disc brake top 10 listing please..
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Posted 2 years ago #
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+1 for hayes 9, utterly bombproof...ridiculusly cheap (especiall 2nd hand in classifieds) easy to bleed, loads and loads of stopping power with 8" rotors.
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Hayes here..easy to service, easy spares, all good, pick up a pair of nines on here and you've spares for strokers to if you need them...nice and easy.
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Deore M525's were brilliant if a bit heavy and ugly. A set for my second bike outgunned my Hope Mini's so I ended up with sets of M525's on both bikes.
Now on Magura Louise FR and Louise BATs and liking them both. Quality construction.
XT M765 did well in the Alps too (twice) as wells as UK duties and still have them somewhere...but I just can't bleed the rear and it needs it after a tumble.
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Has anyone used both the new slx and xt's? I'm trying to decide between the two. I'm more interested in stopping power than modulation.
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I've had a range (mini's, xt servowave, SLX, Hayes stoaker trail, jucy 5/7, tech M4 and my new bike has magura marta SL)
all pretty good in my opinion - only set I've had issues with is the Hayes (bent piston)
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in terms of 'power' i find most disc brakes are more-or-less-sort-of-the-same-ish.
give or take a bit, you know.
ASSUMING: the pads have been kept free of contaminants, it's easy to get them a bit oily if you're bit careless with the chain spray (i know, i shouldn't use spray).
(a clean set of deores will perform way better than a set of oily M4's, etc.)
the biggest difference between brakes/manufacturers that i've seen has been things like reliability/faff/expense/resistance to heat.
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bikewhisperer - Member
I've got Hayes HFX Mags and they have exactly this problem - after riding through the heavily salted roads recently. I think you may be right.
Plenty more 9's with sticky slave pistons. I have a feeling that the issue with the 9's is due to road salt so if you only ride them off road then they are plenty good.Posted 2 years ago #
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