New brakes?

drobeu0

Hi,

I need to replace the front brake on my specialized hardrock having damaged the Hayes brakes that came fitted. I have decided to upgrade the brakes all round, I don't want to spend more than £80 ideally but would push to £100 for some significantly better brakes. I have been looking at shimamo deores and avid juices but read the latter need regular bleeding. Can anyone recommend the best set for my budget and is it a simple enough job fitting them, I am a bit of a newbie to any bike maintenance beyond cleaning!

Any advice would be great, cheers

cooldad

Get the Deores. You won't do better for the money.

zanush

I swapped out my avid elixir 3 for the m596 deores, now they have bedded in they are pretty awesome for the money (£83.98 for front and rear from crc Deore m596 ). They have more than enough hose which you may need to trim down to length to suit your frame but that is very easy to do as it comes with spare inserts/olives and hose clamp (the description says no hose clamp and bleed block supplied but mine had them in the box), also bleeding is a doddle compared to avids.

drobeu0

Thanks for the responses, you've confirmed the deores are the ones to go for. As for trimming the piping will they need bleeding again afterwards, is bleeding a straight forward task i have never done it. Any tips for bleeding or fitting new brakes?

Thanks again

MrM

If you do decide on Juicy. These are a bargain
http://www.merlincycles.com/bike-shop/m ... e-set.html

cooldad

But why would you?

zanush

If your careful you can trim them to size and not need to bleed them Trimming pdf. Just remember when trimming hoses whatever the make measure twice cut once i was a bit cautious and they ended up a still few cm's long but i can live with that.
As for bleeding it really is a doddle Bleeding pdf
You can get a kit with everything you need(oil funnel, syringe etc) here's an example on ebay Bleed Kit

MrM wrote:

If you do decide on Juicy. These are a bargain
http://www.merlincycles.com/bike-shop/m ... e-set.html

The only bonus i see there is that you also get the rotors....i would still go for the deores though.

drobeu0

That's a great help, much apreciated.