presumably they'd been hiding in the shifter
Presumably this is why your brakes weren't working.
Sounds exactly like the problem I had with my SRAM road levers, took me 3 goes over 2 days to get them working. Left me wishing they were Hope brakes, which I know are messy but they're simple.
The Maguras do have some kind of gotcha where you think the job is done but as above, it’s not. It really helps having done a load of them before.
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Presumably this is why your brakes weren't working.
Sounds exactly like the problem I had with my SRAM road levers, took me 3 goes over 2 days to get them working. Left me wishing they were Hope brakes, which I know are messy but they're simple.