I'm with mboy - ceramic rims and parallelogram cantis made a huge difference over your bog-standard M600 LX clone, and were actually even pretty good in the wet.
But disks (again, with the exception of fudging Avid Juicys) just work, end of. I'd forgotten that feeling of 'uh-oh, i'm not stopping' you almost always got with Vs in the wet until I was caught out in the rain on my roadie with callipers the other week.
I've still got some XTR V's on a retro bike, they are shit compared to disc's. In fact even mechanical discs make them feel useless.
Magura HS33s for the win!
If you like buying new rims all the time then yes.
lol.. i love the trolls on hear.. U brakes were the best..
I struggle with long sentences! If you prefer v brakes then you've clearly got mental health issues. Good luck with that.
I have xtr on ceramics which are fine.................till it rains, then they are a joke.
Discs for me please.
I absolutely love the reliability and one-finger power of disk brakes. Except currently my back brake resonates and makes my willy feel weird.
Are you crazy!!!!
I'd give up suspension before i gave up my hydro discs!
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Rodbrake FTW!
I'm still riding with v-brakes.... and a quill stem.
I'm a relic, basically.
So what v-brake pads can you recommend for Fort William then?
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Nothing like the useful brace on a rear HS33 to liven up your day, as you mess a landing up, land on your rear knobbly and get driven forwards like a wacky races conveyor belt to hell, sucking a testicle under and feeling a pop as it releases it again. That drove my shift to discs.
I like V brakes too, have them on a couple of bikes. Light, cheap, simple. Generally capable of locking a wheel too. Useless in deep mud and willy waving competitions but just dandy at slowing a bike down in most situations.
Now caliper brakes.... that's a different kettle of bottom feeding fish....
haha
alright alright. thanks for all your wonderful statements 🙂
maybe I am looking at things with rose tinted specs. perhaps it is time to try out another set of discs. I do still like V brakes and always will mainly due to the tactile stuff as mentioned and also ease of maintenance. but of course I have fallen to the mud every now and then.
but they'll have to go on another and as yet unmaterialised bike as I don't have mounts for them on my current fleet. and I ain't selling the litespeed or the attitude for this!
anyway it's interesting to get opinions.
Buzz play in your rear hub? Mine did the same traced it back to play in the cones. One new cone kit later and the brakes are fine.
