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This seems to be where most people have a polo hydro failure: At the junction of hosing with caliper or lever. I don't see how that could be remedied with different hose choice (but goodridge are the industry leaders, like compressionless housing, it compresses less and therefore less feeling&power is lost), but I do think that a rotor guard will have helped, question is, how do you solve the lever-junction? IIRC that's where B's Elixir broke, too? With all the endo-ing I do I would imagine the lever being the weakest point.
And yeah, just like you Felix I know how to setup every type of cable brake and despite being the most princessy of all, the BB7's only took me a few days to master the setup. What puts me off Hydro is that when it goes wrong, it's a lot of work to fix it. Bleeding a brake line takes a lot more time and patience than threading a new innercable through an outer.