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Paul pedal whore

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i used to run maggy on the rear for ages then bought my leeson and it came with a rear vee and ill be honest there just as good and im some areas there even better, my advice to you if you do go rear vee try and get a decent booster as you may find that you could easily clip the caliper with your shoe and possible braking the vee, also id get a decent cable im running a goodridge inner and outer cable and had any problems since ive had the bike 2years now also i used to run a sd7 on the rear but it exploaded and now im running a sd5 and it works just as good with the same pads and booster hope this helps

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im using a shimano (sp) carbon booster with heatsink snowy pads in cnc backing on a smooth rim, very nice without tar (it holds but less bite so u can use the brake whislt manueling) or a dap of tar and it holds just like a maggy would with a grind, another good thing is that your brakes wont freeze if you have a maggy and water bleed :)

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They aren't as responsive as a nice water bled Maggy so I changed back from vee... But that was just personal preference.

Got the complete works here (sd7 caliper used twice from brand new and a packaged linear slic cable plus everything else) , let me know if you get stuck and we can sort something out. PM if interested!

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yeah i think ill take it all to bits and give it a good service the arms haven't even been touched since i put them on like 18 months ago :| the levers fine though its an sd7 and its fairly new, sorry for kinda stealing your topic paul :P

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I swear by Shimano SP5 cable, I got the smoothest feeling with that cable. I did have the spring tension pretty low, the lever didn't "snap" back to position like a Magura, but this is part of the reason for me liking vee's, I find the spring tension on Maguras too much and get bad arm pump when riding comps.

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