When choosing the best brake for you and your riding, split the decision into calliper design, rotor style and brake pad material.

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Well I love maguras. Less keen on lots of graphs with no axis units. Am I in the sweetspot? Dunno..

Interesting thoughts about 2-pot vs 4-pot. I’m a lighter rider living in a fairly flat area riding predominantly easy XC trails. I’ve found that the XT 2-pot brakes on my old bike had more bite than the SRAM G2 4-pots on my new one.

Both using OEM sintered pads and 180mm front / 160mm rear rotors.. Guess it could be a number of things (e.g. SRAM vs Shimano lever feel) but this article has given me food for thought.