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I was always a mechanical disc nay-sayer but recently, having worked on a lot of hydros I'm coming around.

It's actually just Avids really that put me off hydros, shimano are great, hope are fine but a bitch to align sometimes, hayes ain't too bad except that stupid plug that inevitably pops out of the lever and takes all the fluid with it but Avids are a fucking nightmare.

I imagine a tpiece would be easy enough to find, lots of motorbikes running dual front discs, making it fit might be another issue though.

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

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.

1+ on the Avid being diffcuilt to set-up, but I do like how they feel and the shape of their levers.

Though the cable Avid is pretty good for a mechanical disc brakes.

They're not that expensive to buy but to service/get spares is ridiculous. You have to but specific Hayes hoses which have 90deg unions at the wrong end (different size unions so cant be swapped). You have to spend £25 on a Hayes bleed kit and the only bits you actually want are the tiny plastic/metal ends. The fluid that comes with the kit isn't enough to bleed the brake fully, the bottle they supply splits and the hoses are really really difficult to stretch onto the bottle. I chucked out the hoses and bottle and bought some new hose and syringes. I had to buy new pistons a few months ago and the price of one piston was the price of a pair of most other brands. Also, whenTF would you buy a single piston? It makes no sense.

This should all be in some other thread >>>>>>>> but I don't know/car which one. Not in polo because they shoot down anyone that suggests a hydraulic brake.

The BB7 is top notch and easy to install/use. I've also had a Hayes dydraulic. If I had a crash or a wayward mallet that fucked my brake cable, I know which would be quicker to repair.

Somebody flip the image in 'shop so we can see the drive side please.

The BB7 is top notch and easy to install/use. I've also had a Hayes dydraulic. If I had a crash or a wayward mallet that fucked my brake cable, I know which would be quicker to repair.

quick is just one part

which one will be more easy to find a sunday afternoon before the final games...?

polo tourneys happen during weekends

http://njs-keirin.blogspot.com/2007/09/straight-up-buyers-builds.html

There is a whole ream of bike porn there, admittedly some of it is shit

Somebody flip the image in 'shop so we can see the drive side please.

here ya go:

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The BB7 is top notch and easy to install/use. I've also had a Hayes dydraulic. If I had a crash or a wayward mallet that fucked my brake cable, I know which would be quicker to repair.

If you had braided hoses and kept them tidy then there would be no need fore replacements.

^Braided hose = indestructable

Never thought I would do this, but I've given you rep mdcc_tester. That was a lol.

^Braided hose = indestructable

No, but the likelihood of anyone breaking one in polo would be quite unlikely unless you ride like a twat or people are doing their best to break your bike.

unlikely unless you ride like a twat or people are doing their best to break your bike.

These things have been very common from my polo playing experience.

All in good spirit, though.

Pogliaghi PSM 9015

Hey, I run 52x19 for yorkshire, but that gear looks ridic!

*it's not 10 pitch is it!

1988!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

after a little deliberation, I reckon this deserves it's place here as well as the rat/beater thread.

full of win

2 trashed frames = 1 rideable

1988!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

must be one of the most posted bikes in this thread

Thats the thing with the intranet, you find or see something outstanding (in one or the other way) the first time, you can be sure no one ever had seen this before---

tschüß

must be one of the most posted bikes in this thread

sorry luv, just found it )

More here

Dayum!

Hey, I run 52x19 for yorkshire, but that gear looks ridic!

*it's not 10 pitch is it!

where are you in yorkshire?