Hydraulic/Mechanical Brake Mix
Hi all,
Just a thought I've been having as a potential weight/cost saving measure on a new bike. Is there any good reason not to run a mechanical disc brake on the rear instead of a hydraulic one? It's definitely a cost saving largely due to the shifter price and the performance hit would presumably be minor given that the rear brake contributes very little to overall braking. I run cable discs already on several bikes and I've found them to be generally excellent.
Has anyone tried this and if so, how did it go?
Just a thought I've been having as a potential weight/cost saving measure on a new bike. Is there any good reason not to run a mechanical disc brake on the rear instead of a hydraulic one? It's definitely a cost saving largely due to the shifter price and the performance hit would presumably be minor given that the rear brake contributes very little to overall braking. I run cable discs already on several bikes and I've found them to be generally excellent.
Has anyone tried this and if so, how did it go?
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It's do-able, and I can't see there being any particular drawbacks, but you'd obviously need to run different levers for each system..0
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I think ugo used to have a hyrd front and a mechanical back.
I've been running the giant conduct hybrid system for a few rides now, might be worth looking into as it is very reasonably priced.
It works well but there is quite a lot of lever travel and it is hard to bleed (I think I have the hang of it now!)0 -
There will be absoloutely no problem at all with that.
Why should there be?Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0
