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Hayes are fucking expensive and have no modulation
No experience of Avid except cable which I thought were shite
Hope are damn noisy
Shimano are great imo, good value for money, nicely modulated, spares are cheap enough and easily available from aftermarket suppliers

Didn't know that Hayes were pricey, was talking from a working on bike that are brought into the shop point of view.

Avid decided that instead of having a master cylinder with a cap that comes off and a bleed nipple on the caliper they would reinvent the wheel and make it so that you need specific Avid syringes which thread into the lever and caliper to fill/bleed them.

The syringes are shit and don't seal so when you try and bleed them the way they tell you to which involves using the shit, leaky syringe to create a vacuum) you get air pissing in everywhere and end up with the brake in a worse state than it was before.

They also don't take well to the bike they are fitted to being stored vertically.