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Hadn’t seen this. Super helpful, thank you - I can’t lock the wheels so I think a full brake service is in order first!
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Something is up if you can't lock the wheels up. I'm running slick 28s and if I jab the brakes too hard I'm definitely skidding down the road. Your pads and/or rotors are worn, contaminated or maybe shit.
Could also be that the bleed is shit so the brake levers are at the bars before full force is applied?
hippy
The other thing is - I can lock up the wheels with 160mm front and back so the limitation here is tyre traction, not brake power.
It sounds more like you had a shit set of brakes or perhaps the brakes weren't bedded in and it's put the willies up you.
Get an MTB with huge rotors and 4-pot calipers and you're just gonna lock the wheels up and now you're not stopping because the tyre is sliding down the road (or more likely, you're on the deck)