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Big_Ted
Dammit
The reason I have Magura brakes is because they were such a key part of the original Pace mountain bikes, in the iconic yellow.
It would have been very easy to have changed course, but Hope's aesthetic doesn't work for me, and my recent experience of their brakes was not good. Shimano crack pistons if you look at them wrong, and SRAM levers looks like they belong on a motocross bike.
Trickstuff of course get great reviews, but they're somewhat spendy and the hose doesn't fit through internally routed frames.
And, of course, we have the forums very own Howard who recommends them.
I'm also extremely stubborn, and won't accept a level of performance below that which I know the parts are capable (my own performance, on the other hand....), and it may be apparent that I like to fiddle with things.
All of that to one side, having resolved the "cable guard not long enough" issue on the full suspension bike, they've been great - apart from the master cylinder issue, but whatevs.
The bleeding process is, absolutely 100%, a massive pain in the arse to do properly.
It's very easy to do badly, and it's fairly easy to do acceptably - which I think is what happens with most peoples brakes as that's my experience of getting bike shops to bleed them.