The Klein CAAD12

Cable discs stopped me fine at Bike Park Wales when I weighed 115kg.

Either my fingers are made of steel, or people on this forum have been pushing too many pencils....

With those you get a 622mm rotor!

Either my fingers are made of steel, or people on this forum have been pushing too many pencils....

I wondered about this, and I suspect leavers for flat bars don't have different bar shapes to worry about, different hand positions and don't have to squeeze in a shifting unit that affects the placement of the pivot, and the designers can concentrate on just making them work for stopping.

That said my concern is less with raw stopping power, more with what an utter pain in the ass internal cabling is with stiff, compressionless outer.

Even with ducting?

Well in the meantime, I've ordered the skewer adapters for the thru axle wheels from Competitive Cyclist, big thanks to @Señor_Bear for (hopefully) collecting them from the US for me

CAAD7 first pleeeeeeease

Depends where the exit holes are. On my Talbot the exit at the down tube / BB then go back in to the chainstay. Thank goodness. It's ducted. I think those CAADs route their inside the BB shell.

Huge pain in the ass getting the rear cable functioning as the exit hole on the chainstay doesn't point directly at the cable socket on the caliper, meaning it gets a shit bend that can only be achieved by removing the caliper, inserting the cable and outer, then squishing the caliper back on. Needless to say the rear brake does not feel tres bon, although it feels better now.

I could almost finish it if I bothered. I've got a SLR Carbonio for the gooch shredding duties, the stupid spinergys, Sram force group with Red levers and cranks. Needs cassette, chain, cables, bars, seatpost, tyres, bar tape and pedals

If he's just bought Red22, why is he then going to buy hydro

shut it Hetty Douglas

No he's not putting Sora on it!

#rep

FWIW, having seen the bend in the hydraulic hose that Mario from Soho created when building the bike I don't see how a cable rear brake would actually work.

As soon as I popped the under bb plate out and saw the hose I cut it, it was not re-usable, nor could I get it out of the guide in one bit.

I think @swedeee had similar experiences (?)

Well I'm gonna give it a go coz it'll be a boat load cheaper

I have one of these and my experience is that cable routing is a real pain in the arse.

The gear cable routing is terrible through the BB area. You'd think the frame was pretty much designed around di2 routing.

It worked for Jan Ullrich.

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Ignore the buyers. I have spyres and compressionless cables and they stop me really well. I am 73kg too and my bike is a respectable 10kg (with guards, obvz).

However I would go hydro if I got them cheap...

As above, it's nothing to do with da stopping, it's the mechanics of hooking them up on frames that weren't designed for them.

it looks great this frame. might candy fadez my caad 12 as well... if i ever finish building it

Puzzle piece no.2 arrived

Have you got that combination with this frame?

Given @dammit 's comment about the shape of the hose that came out it sounds like this frame is not intended to take cable pull brakes.

I'm confident its not. All of the OTP are shimano hydro. But I'm gonna give it a bash