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Yo, welcome to the forum :) a great first post.
I didn’t know much about ee brakes until I just googled there. Ooft, six hundred bangers for the real McCoy. Wild.
So basically they are roughly half the weight of DA but with slightly sub DA performance?
Fuck paying that for the real deal but I can now see the appeal of these alix ones.
Out of curiosity, what bike do you have them on? Is it proper weight weenie?
Have you weighed them?!Have you noted any potential problems with them damaging the down tube as mentioned in the road.cc review?
I think someone here said they have real ones and ordered these alix numbers.
Be great to hear some real life comparisons.
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Here are some weights incoming: I used a kitchen scale to measure the brakes - so this might not be very accurate. I measured them without my brake pads (10g/ pair), but I included the new stainless steel nuts. The alloy ones that came with the brakes are so light, that my kitchen scale did not display anything for them.
Front EE brake: 100g (5g of which are the stainless steel nut)
Rear EE brake: 96g (4g of which are the stainless steel nut)All in all that is 100g less then my DA brakes. Like @greeno said my bike is indeed a caad9. It’s not a proper weight weenie (yet), but I’d like to get there part by part.
I am running 28mm Continental 4-Season Tyres which on my rims turn out to be 29mm. The brakes comfortably accommodate their width and height.The problem mentioned in the road.cc review is not given with my bike. My handlebars stop the fork from turning so far that the adjusting screw touches my frame. I think the review was quite odd to be honest.
@jameo I added some more pictures :)
greeno
Samo_S
Hi! I have never contributed to this forum but now it seems appropriate. I bought the Chinese EE brakes about a month ago and yesterday they finally arrived. They do look very good and seem well made. In some spots there are light shatter marks from CNC machining but that doesn’t look different to what I have seen online from the original brakes. The brakes come in what seems to be the original packaging with installation instructions from Cane Creek. I just installed them on my bike replacing the Dura Ace Br-7800 brake I had until now. Compared to these the EE brakes are less crisp but it seems that they offer the same braking power. And of course they look very nice. (This is why I bought them ;))
However I want to add, that the nut which fixes the brake to the frame is not of good quality. I used a torque wrench and noticed that the bolt was quite soft (the socket where you insert the tool gave in and it deformed when tightening the brake —> see the picture). I simply replaced the bolts and used some stainless steel ones. I would highly recommend doing that as well. I have seen similar problems with other screws and bolts which I bought of Ali Express.
Obviously I can’t say if these are as good or similar to the real brakes as I've never seen them in real life, but I didn’t notice any differences to what I’ve seen online.