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What is it that makes them like a scaled down motorbike brake? I’ve perhaps naively thought that any hydraulic mountain bike brake is like a scaled down motor bike brake
Obviously there are many different designs, and all bicycle brakes are derived ultimately from motorcycle designs because moto came first. What distinguishes M755 and similar brakes of that early generation is how little the layout changed from common utility moto brakes (not swanky race brakes with their remote reservoirs and radial master cylinders). Over the next twenty years, there has been more divergence as bicycle designers seek light weight and compactness to suit the constraints of human power, rather than just shrinking a basic moto layout.
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What is it that makes them like a scaled down motorbike brake? I’ve perhaps naively thought that any hydraulic mountain bike brake is like a scaled down motor bike brake. Curious to know the difference now.