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in your own opionion what would you say is the best DUAL brake type to go for and why?

v-brakes

maguras

discs

i use hope discs on my kamel they are the best v and maguras i found they are not that good in the wet and u have to grid your rim or put tar on ti with discs you can ride what ever the weather

hope it helps

cheers Alex

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i use hope discs on my kamel they are the best v and maguras i found they are not that good in the wet and u have to grid your rim or put tar on ti with discs you can ride what ever the weather

hope it helps

cheers Alex

It would help, but you dont use punctuation so it just sounds like a load of jiberish.

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i use hope discs on my kamel they are the best v and maguras i found they are not that good in the wet and u have to grid your rim or put tar on ti with discs you can ride what ever the weather

hope it helps

cheers Alex

with discs, get a side hop wrong and you've bent the rotor even though i run dual disc but should be going back to maggy soon

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Well and truly been round the houses when I comes to brakes.

Never had rear disk though, because its a silly idea. Especially with the way I sidehop (to the left).

I've had 7 maguras (with pretty much every set of pads under the sun, pre '08 deng lever blades, '08 deng leverblades, metal tpas etc etc)

I've had an Avid SD7 and an Avid Ultimate (with various different cables, various pads again)

I've had a BB7 (180mm)

I've had a Mono Trial (180mm)

I've had two Magura Louises. (180mm and 190mm)

Setteled on - Magura Louise front with a 190mm rotor, and an HS33 on the back with Koxx Browns and a standard lever and TPA. Goodridge hosing though. Which I am very happy with.

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V-ee's are poor unless your willing to pay a bit for some decent ones which you'de be better of buying maguras which do cost alot5 but if quality is what your after then discs are for you but discs are not ideal for trialsing because if you land on the rotor your stuffed unless your willing to buy a new disc rotor.

I have a hope disc on the front and a magura on the back of my 05/06 t-pro and have had no problems with landing on it and i hope to keep it that way. But i am a beginner trialser so until i try bigger and better things i do'nt know.

Really i narrowed it down to magura and disc brakes for you so from here it's up to you.

thanks jack rawse

p.s Good thread it will help many people.

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V-ee's are poor unless your willing to pay a bit for some decent ones which you'de be better of buying maguras which do cost alot5 but if quality is what your after then discs are for you but discs are not ideal for trialsing because if you land on the rotor your stuffed unless your willing to buy a new disc rotor.

most things are poor unless you pay though, you can do a decent vee brake for under the cost of a magura [don't quote me on that for definate] but when you consider all the effort you have to put in for setting up a magura [grind/pads] normally vees seem to come with decent pads anyway. hhmn i'm rambling i'm not to big on vee-facts.

i run dual cable disks my front brakes being a bit shity but rear bb7 with 200mm rotor the hold is rediculous and the ability to adjust the feel of the brake [pad positioning an pull ratio] means i can have the brake feeling how i want (Y) and it's nice + quiet which makes my riding feel smoother.

edit: this sidehoping badly will kill your disk rotor is bullshit to if you have a decent rotor [hope or avid] especially avid 'cause there a bit thicker, you won't do shit to it if you land on it. i'm a prety heavy guy and i've not bent mine, and if your sidehoping properly/normally, you should be landing at an angle to the wall, not perpendicular so catching your rotor just doesn't happen (Y)

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