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Bike discount usually has pretty great deals for schwalbes at the end of the year...

Bikeinn.com for a lot of stuff that is usually 2x in US.

Thanks! Adding diagram for anyone curious about it

I'll use the rotor to do it with the wheel installed. It's important to make sure the pistons are moving in and out easily before pressing against the rotor to center the pistons, otherwise you'll just be sitting there bending the rotor. On a new/lightly used set of brakes, I'll do some form of the "piston massage" procedure by removing the wheel and cycling the pads in and out with a tire lever or flat head screwdriver to isolate which set of pistons are moving. On a used brake I'll do the same but remove the pads to clean up...

I think so yeah. I do like how the maven caliper stays bolted on during bleeding and bleeding edge is way better too. The bleed port is a natural high spot too which is great. I do wonder how much of a bitch it will be to diagnose a sticky piston further down the track in a maven it's just not as easy to see in. Maximas have a really robust bleed process, it's a bit of fluffing around though. Not only do you remove the levers and ziptie them vertical, you also cycle the pistons completely out to a...

Gave the trickstuff maven combo a decent run. I have a track that will make most brakes fade and will expose problems real quick. I kept the front pure maxima to ensure I defo would have a working brake at one end lol. The triven combo went pretty good to be fair, it's got good modulation the top was muddy and icy and no issue keeping things in check. But of no surprise to me the organic pads left the chat pretty quickly. Lever has more throw than I'd like, no surprises there either. A fun experiement none the less.

Looks like RockShox quietly released the next version (A2) of the Reverb AXS. Minor changes, lower price (but remote is not included any longer) and 170mm is still the max. https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/models/sp-rvb-axs-a2

I mentioned spoke clearance with the Intends earlier, this kindof shows it it’s a non issue with standard steel spokes, but using anything with a larger diameter than normal and you risk hitting the caliper. It’s a beefy boi at 43mm wide. It’s 16mm from pad cutout to the outside towards the wheel. Most others I measured were 38ish total and 12-14mm from pad cutout I ran several wheels and had no issue except for the HAWK30X that are 4.5mm at the base. They just barely hit.

WTF is going on here? Direct link: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6yDjJ-s7Ac/?img_index=8

Competitive Cyclist shared this electronic Transfer via email today (oops). I found this private page on Cambria's website via google. Maybe one of you nerds can figure out how to get better photos. idk.

I'll pre-empt the inevitable butthurt about the below by saying that all of these options are good. They are all powerful, all reasonably easy enough to work on, and all (mostly) consistent. I mainly say that because people adore Saints and I found them to be the weaker in almost every category compared to others, but still good. I'd also caveat that "power" is somewhat misunderstood IMO. Most people don't have the means to measure overall, total available power, rather they base it on how the brakes feel. A brake like the Maximas may have a ton of overall power...

The Trinity brakes are really really good. I've tried a lot of brakes recently (Code, Saint, MT7, Radic Kaha, Intend, Maxima, Maven, Dominion, Hope T4 V4, a few others I'm probably forgetting) and they are my favorite of the group. I strongly recommend them to anyone interested and willing to pay/run a niche product like that, with the caveats I mentioned above. They do take a little bit longer to sortof 'bed in' than others. The pads took longer than I was used to for the power to come in, but I also had a minor issue with the pad...

I had both of these and can comment. As they mentioned, the Trickstuff brakes have a more linear power delivery. This means that a pull of the lever is going to gradually get you more power, it is there but it comes on a lot slower. Similar to Hopes, these have a sortof more vague bite point. I don't mean that in a bad way, just that unlike most other brakes other than Hope, there isn't a significant increase in force required to pull the lever once the pads engage. It's a very subtle feeling as you pull on the...

Triven 🤷 Seems to work OK, haven't ridden properly yet. Definitely a heavier lever till bite point. Then it seems to be really effortless to bring on power. But will have to see how it holds up.

no hate at all, on the tech rumors someone claimed that and damn it's just not the case. that's all, and on this thread you've got 2 pictures really close to each other showing that too

they sure look well made, but i've read people claiming the finish is the same as Trickstuff, just by the picture (i've seen both in real life ) one must be blind to state that