You are reading a single comment by @Josh and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
Josh
@Josh Seeing as mine is an early one, QR, post-mount, only mudguard mounts and nothing else, I had been tempted to move on rather than upgrade it, get something new. But ultimately I decided to stick with it because it really is a good bike and on balance nothing else really grabbed my attention.
@AlexD I never got on with my Spyres. I had them set up with good rotors, Swisstop pads, Jagwire compressionless housing and with very careful setup they'd be ok for a few rides. But soon after with any pad wear at all they'd just lose that perfect set up and be shit again. They alway's needed a lot of effort at the lever to get them to stop, a proper death grip. As for this GRX/SLX combo, I wouldn't say they're any more powerful at the limit- both stop the bike all the same - but it's effortless in comparison to the Spyres.