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Subject: Re: Bleeding Disc's
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:38:27 -0400
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On 3/21/2025 9:45 PM, James wrote:
> On 22/3/25 08:17, Roger Merriman wrote:
>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> SO much more finicky than dealing with cable actuated rim brakes!
>>>
>> This is a Tom thing! Cable disks have niche applications, much like
>> hydraulic rim brakes, both of which aren’t obsolete but are technological
>> dead ends, with the same products being sold.
>>
>> Cable disks as they aren’t a sealed system, get muck into the callipers,
>> which absolutely will do a number on the calliper, my Gravel bike as new
>> had cable disks, used a few different callipers before I upgraded to
>> hydraulic.
>>
>> They require much more maintenance, aka adjusting as the pads wear down,
>> aren’t as powerful as hydraulics and realistically are rather the 
>> worse of
>> both worlds.
>>
>> Assuming the bike has the clearance for 32ish then rim brakes arguably 
>> are
>> easier to live with as long as it’s a road bike, rim pads have a 
>> remarkably
>> short lifespan on wet mucky rides! Let alone lack of power and so on.
>>
> 
> I am very happy with my gravel bike equipped with cable actuated disc 
> brakes (TRP Spyre C), 160mm discs, Jagwire semi metallic pads and 
> compressionless housings.
> 
> Adjustment is infrequent and easy.  Braking performance is fine. 
> Maintainability is easy.
> 

I'm running Avid BB7s on my hard-tail MTB and my CX bike, I have the 
same experience. My FS MTB has hydraulic Sram G2s, but everything else 
are rim brakes besides the HT and CX are rim brakes. The hydraulics are 
definitely better, but not better enough to justify the hassles 
associated with hydraulics. Fortunately, the hydraulics don't need a lot 
of maintenance once they are set up, but swapping a cable for the BB7s 
is waaaaaay simpler than bleeding/refilling the G2s. I wont be swapping 
out the G2's anytime soon because they work great and I seriously only 
need to do any PM every other year.