What are you trying to stop with them? I've got 1.5 hydraulic brakes sitting in my bike mess at home (I have a plan to put a disc brake onto a Bob Yak trailer) and I spent some time with them on a regular bike but didn't really see any difference between them and the mechanical discs I put onto the thing when I decided that disc brakes were okay to use on it.
-david parsons On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 2:49:54 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > "And I hear that hydraulic disc brakes are even more powerful and that > they modulate even better than the best mechanicals." > > If you ever want to get brake-spoiled, try hydraulics. Power and > modulation with light hand pressure out the kazoo; they make even the > mechanical discs on my folder feel like stopping and old Chevy with drum > brakes. I purposely avoided mentioning hydros in my earlier comment because > this thread already has me promoting electric motors and mechanical discs > for Rivendells. I gotta draw the line somewhere! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
