hdmackay

Pads: Rock Blues. Time used: About 3 weeks. Rim used: Echo Urban. Grind: Yes. Brake used: 05 Magura What is your opinion of a working brake: Instant bite, infinite hold and a nice loud honk. Pads used before: Heatsink Snowies, Onza Limes, TNN CRM's. How do they compare to previous pads you have used: Best brake i've ever had. Review: Firstly, my brake set-up is an 05 maggie, 4-finger lever, 74kings TPA with a waterbleed. I took these pads out the plastic backings when I got them and stuck them into my Heatsink CNC backings. Required a small amount of cutting but got a PERFECT fit. I gave my rim a fresh grind, light-medium-ish. Set my brake up absolutely perfectely square and the pads have so much material I only just managed to set my brake up with the pistons all the way out. So I went out for a test ride. At first, they were shockingly bad. I was just gapping about up curbs and stuff and the bite and hold was awful. But I went out for a proper ride and the brake was getting louder and louder and more bitey. After about 2 hours riding my brake was INSANE! Bitey as f**k and the hold was decent. Now, the bite is still awesome and the hold is incredible. Pretty much never slips. Was out riding in the rain and snow, brake got a wee bit worse but hardly atall. Mainly because my grind is going dead I think. Still no signs of pad wear atall. Absolutely LOVE these pads, always gonna buy them from nowon. For anyone interested I got them Mikey C for £15 posted which is the cheapest you'll find them. Add him on MSN.

Well, as far as front vee's go, they absolutely OWN maggies. But i've never had expierence with a rear. My mate has a rear one and to be honest it's pretty bad but that's without a booster and Onza Lime pads so with a good setup like the one you said Jack should be pretty mint! Vee's have countless advantages over maggies, most have already been covered me thinks. Despite all that though, i'm sticking with rear maggies mainly because my magura is freakin' AWESOME and I can't justify buying a whole new brake when my current one is soo good! Always front vee though. :wink2: You will probably bump into some problems with setting up though because of really wide back rims. The arms on my mates vee are at quite an angle and sometimes his shoe gets caught. Ideally the arms are both parallel pointing up wards when the brakes fully pulled in. But for that you'd have to have like a 32mm back rim. Haha.

Why? I've never seen the reason for this. I think ALL frames should have Magura and Disc mounts so the rider has the choice to change. I don't see the point in say disc only frames. It's hardly gonna add any more weight. Also with the Ice Version 2 with the added disc mount the price didn't go up at all either. So it's not more expensive... WHY do it?

That's what I was thinking.

Does that make me sad? That was second attempt. EDIT: just saw Aener's post. I can't be that sad. Lol

Sooo sooo nice!

Simpson's removing an egg from your wheel would HAVE to go in there. Sounds like a good idea.

Alright, cheers. Does it feel as quick as water but lubricates the system like Royal Blood yeah?

Well, I haven't got one, but i'm sure it is REALLY good. And buy it here

Just wondering, are you still making that Magura Emulsion fluid because i'd definately be interested.

Why did you quote what you quoted? Was completely irrelevant.

What i find best is to put water in the o-ring, then push the pads on as far as you can wih your hands, then set-up your brake and squeeze the lever really hard. Will do the trick.

Better be the low rise ones. I'll have to shoot you if you get the hise rise.

Ice boiii.

Horrific. Except for the front brake. :$

That's mental man!! I've managed 38" and that's after about 11 months riding! Haha. Keep it up!

Quite enjoyed that actually. Looked like a fun ride. Guy on the ZOO! was quite the tank.

I always run a split link. They are soo useful. I quite often need to split my chain to be honest and if I didn't have a split link i'd have spent ages fannying around with chain tools and stuff. And I've never had expierences snapping one either.

That friend being me. Haha. Yeah, i've snapped two in the space of about a month. But my front brake is super powerful. The Heatsink ones are meant to be great if you can get your hands on them.

always liked your videos. Miint riding! Bail at the end is great!

Aww man! Actually love you!