shimano deore Lx hydraulic brakes

commissoiner

are these any good? there for my GT Chucker or a Kona coiler haven't decided yet.

or are there any other brakes for under £100?

jord

Anonymous

All the Shimano hydraulics are good. Not so great in terms of sharpness but the modulation is there.

The Spiderman

Also easy to service,maintain,and get spares for.

dav1

you may want a 185 front rotor, apparently you can compensate for their lack of power that way and then you have a great brakeset.

schmako

Had my LX's for 3 years on the xc bike, only changed the pads once. Good braking every time.

uk_mr_brownstone

I have had a standard deore hydraulic on the front for a couple of years. It's been on and off various bikes and forks and has not needed re-bleeding yet!

You can mess about with different brakets (i.e. if moving between a post and IS fork) and after a couple of heavy braking tests the pads move back into just the right position.

I used to have some old Magura Julie's which had the single piston- you could manually adjust the static pad so that it was as close as possible to the disc, do teh same with the piston side and you'd get really immediate braking, but the shimano's offer a much easier set up and more control to be honest as they don't grab too hard at the mildest lever pull!

I've now got an LX on the back and it is equally hastle free and works as well as I need.

I'd defiantely recommend shimano hydraulics- but merlincyles.com have some really good brake deals on hayes strokers

Also, depending how much you were gonna spend on the LX, they have the XT for £60 a set http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=produ ... goryId=115

A friend has the XT, and to bee honest I didn't notice much difference to my standard deore- but he doesn't look after his pads very well so they probably could've been even better

dunker

i've not had to touch mine (lx m585) since the bike arrived last march with black organic? front pads and orange sintered? rear pads. the front has about 50% wear and the rear about 25% wear with road/xc 50/50 use and nearly 2k miles on them, very impressed with them i thought they'd eat pads quicker but i am quite light so maybe that's helping. about every 200 miles i give them a good squirt with muc-off disc brake cleaner and wipe off with toilet paper which keeps them feeling nearly like new.