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Dammit
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Congrats on lucky 13.
Obviously another set of mt7’s makes the most sense in terms of servicing and spares but wouldn’t you be tempted by something new?
Hayes and TRP both have dh brakes that seem to be well regarded these days. The Hayes in particular looks interesting.
Cascade Components is worth a look. A guy in Switzerland called 612Parts is making some very fancy looking brakes.
Sram also have a new dh brake that’s been on all the pro sram bikes at the world cups, release must be fairly soon. Its apparently going to use mineral oil.
I have a sram xo dh groupset currently and had saint on my old dh bike. There’s honestly not a whole lot between them, they are both great and I’d be happy with either.
The only thing that might swing it to the xo is the natty 7 speed x-dome cassette that’s very light and reassuringly expensive. The carbon xo crankset is nicer and lighter than Saint but a friend has snapped two sets of xo cranks.
DH bikes still excite me like a teenager. Mine is my least used bike but it’s by far my favourite.