Shigura – works for you?

If you have a moment tell me your experiences. Although I think my Baldrick cunning plan might fall at the first hurdle in that I will still have to remove the Shimano hose from the internally routed e-bike.

Works great for me (a year in).

I’d been thinking about it anyway, but a bad experience trying to fit short Magura levers left with me some broken brakes. Had a couple of Zee levers kicking around so threw them at the problem. Initially with Shimano barbs and olives but switched them out for Magura ones as soon as I had chance to get any (no real functionak reason, just felt more logical).

Power is great, ergonomics are great, and they are super easy to bleed.

Hose – would gaffering the new hose to the old one and carefully pulling through not work?

Son has them. Had a full Magura setup but crashed and broke one of the levers. Swapped them for some SLX levers he had and really likes them.

They are crazy powerful/sensitive compared to my SRAM guides. When I take it for a spin round the block I almost go OTB 😂

Two bikes with them on, best brakes I’ve had. Loads of power, easy to bleed. Cheap as chips.

I’ve started using 2.3mm rotors which has 3 benefits, 1-magura pads are closer to the rotor so thicker rotors stay straighter longer. 2-shimano master cylinder reservoir is a tad too small, as pads wear out potential to not have enough oil. 3-handles heat better

I’ve been using putoline hpx r fluid instead of Shimano oil/ magura royal blood. It’s much less viscous and so it is even easier to bleed and all the Shimano lever bite point issues go away.

I’m running ShiTRP and that’s a great combo.

Saint levers, DHR Evo calipers.

No problems here at all over 4 years. I’m running XTR Race levers, so non-servowave which gives loads of modulation and still lots of power, but not as sharp. Not sure I’d run anything else (maybe Formula Curas, but not tried them)

4 years on… best brakes I’ve owned, including saints. Insanely powerful and consistent.

I have Saint levers and Magura calipers… except the bike that has them got demoted to my gravelly type stuff so it’s overkill.

They’re good and strong, except because I cheaped out and bought some second hand levers the piston get bypassed if I hold the front brake for too long – fortunately not something I tend to do much on that bike.

While I prefer them to the old Shimano I used i’d honestly say the Formula Cura 2-pot on my other bike seem just as good.

About 4 years on them here too. They’re great. M680 (I think) levers, Storm 2.2 rotors, mt5 calipers and Magura pads.
Gobs of power, pretty much maintenance free. Tempted to try some Zee levers to feel the difference in modulation.

I’ve got the shigura setup on my old ebike and it’s been working fine for a few years now.

You need servo wave levers and the Shimano sized olive and barb to fit the levers.

I use Shimano mineral oil in mine and all is trouble free.

@bear-uk why do you need servowave levers? I ran Non-servowave shigura after one too many leaks from MT5 levers, but eventually the Magura hose started leaking where it went into the banjo on the front brake so I went back to full shimano, 4 or 5 thousand trouble free miles ago.

For me the answer is M4100 levers, shimano 4 pot calipers, 2.3mm trp rotors, plutoline HPX r fluid and Galfer purple pads. Works at home in the cold slop on slow off camber stuff where you need precise control of the brakes, and in the alps on hot days/massive heavy braking days and everything between.  CBA with Maguras leaking and fragile plastic levers.

@peanutcracknell.

It’s what the internet says works best from other users. I think the servo wave gives more fluid for a given amount of pull.

@bear-uk I did like the feel of my shigura setup, I’d have stuck with it if the hoses hadn’t started leaking too. Iirc a hose was nearly as much as a complete brake at that point in time, so I’d had enough and went back to shimano. They definitely work with non-servowave levers, I guess it depends what kind of feel you’re after. I’d been trying to get away from the on/off feel of servowave and the M4100 levers definitely deliver there, nicely controllable power and bags of it when you need it with both the Magura and Shimano calipers.

Yup, XT levers, Shimano hose and banjo, MT5 calipers and discs, putoline 2.5wt oil.

I do like the feel of the full Shimano m6100 setup on the other bike as well though.