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The notion that it’s ok for MTB brakes to require high input forces because F1 does is pretty ridiculous.

Wow, struggled to make it through that. This is my first DS video, and seems like internet clickbait to me. My thoughts -Obviously SRAM doesnt want you using Shimano rotors, does this need any further explanation other than this appeared to be a prevailing attitude throughout the video. -These arent designed for intermediate or beginner riders, full stop. Its a peak performance product, designed with heavy use gravity riders in mind. As noted by the Extreme Duty++++ designation, so lets assume that Dale at 110lbs isnt the target market -Why wouldnt you test all the options made available, or even...

I was suspicious immediately with the ShimAnno rotors too…gotta read the manual bro! If the recommended set up process is bunk you can say so, but to just plow ahead with whatever your personal preferences are renders your review kind of silly. Mix and match Frankenstein weirdo! Whatever. I zoned out and ended up watching the whole thing because the trails were rad!

You're likely right, but I'm not sure that's an excuse, especially since he didn't explicitly state his approach was to not follow the setup instructions. At least Vital admitted their error right up front and reviewed a properly set up brake. What if this was a suspension fork? A lot of consumers don't properly set air pressure, compression, rebound, but if I saw a review where the person didn't do any of that and said the fork felt awful, I would LOL that reviewer and their review.

One thing I've been curious about with these, since I haven't gotten a chance to mess with them, is how pad clearance looks. The pistons are quite large and my understanding is the master cylinder piston is at least very similar in size to that of a Code. Assuming the 50% more power thing is correct the math verifies this. That would require one of two things to keep lever throw within check: decreased pad clearance or much lower leverage ratio in the early portion of lever throw in order to quickly advance the pads at first. What I ran...

Perhaps the stiff lever would have remained, we'll never know as he skipped this step in the setup and didn't bother to troubleshoot. Since the manual states the piston massage step is to "improve lever feel" and the review focuses on issues with lever feel, I would say that step in the setup is very important, as other reviewers such as Vital have now pointed out. It's pretty disingenuous to put SRAM on blast to his 280K followers when he didn't take the time to set up the brakes properly - no bleed, no piston massage.

Agreed, there are some amazing engineers that come up with creative fixes etc... but don't dare ask them to work on something. and there are amazing riders that can't turn a wrench to save their lives. And amazing wrenches that cant do any of that either. Thats not to say they don't exist but being one does not guarantee another. One of the legends of mechanics, Monkey, might not have been able to draw something in CAD or know the forces that a specific bolt would take, or the tensile strength of a material (granted he might of but...) yet...

I don't know the person in question, but I can tell you that after 26 years of turning wrenches for a living that neither being an engineer or a good (even great) rider absolutely DOES NOT mean that you know how to work on bikes.

Tha combined with the mounting a shifter issue... when he is using a matchmaker brake clamp backwards with an i-spec shifter.... how about mount the shifter to the clamp the brake has, or use a lower profile clamp in the correct direction... everything about that was a mess

but, but, but, how can jonny have found a fix for the stiff lever? sram is a big bad advertiser and everyone else is lying about the brakes! #eyeroll

HA! Or that... I had a feeling he was going off the rails when his first move was to pair the Mavens with XTR rotors. He should have read the manual instead.

There’s also the incredibly likely chance this random Youtuber is going out of his way to find anything remotely negative about a product that has generally favorable reviews solely to generate clicks.

They made a DC lyrik for like 2 decades bro. They just called it a boxxer.

Careful. Forbidden don’t want any publicity

I'm really hoping one of the guys at Faction is known as Frank The Bonder.

norco sight and optic are official. simonetti's review. https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/guide/bikes/norco/sight-47406#comment-…

I think the Rocky Mountain enduro team may be switching to SRAM. The SRAM product director commented on Remi’s post:

i guess master trolling from remy, miranda and tyler

Probalby just a joke from Doddy. However, yoshimura doesnt make bars, and he is sponsored to make a clipless pedal it seems.

Me too. I know he was getting hassled for posting stuff a while back and am guessing it made it not worth it to continue