+1 For Magura!
Got Magura on all my bikes. Louise Bat on my FS, Marta SL on XC HT and Louise FR on the work bike. All of them are excellent. I've had the FRs for 5 years and, other than a couple of pad changes, -actually not because I needed to, more because I thought I should… (both sets of "used pads" are still good to use).I've never had a problem with any of the brakes. The FRs are over 5 years old and are used almost everyday of the year. The Hope brakes I had before were good, but only because I knew how to fix and fettle them, which I had to do fairly often. Which reminds me of how loud they were. My Magura's are, (except in real downpours), always silent. 😀
The brakes are probably the best on the Market today, but Magura seem to be held back by a bad pat image and incompetent marketing guys. (Perhaps this is meant??), a German strategy perhaps to produce the worst adverts of any company, and to permanently stumble over bad press. Despite an apparently good service in the UK. ❓