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Hope Tech Evo X2 or Shimano XTR Trail ?
Thoughts / opinion / experiences ?
TIA
How long do you keep your brakes for? If it's for more than a couple of years then buy the Hopes.
New 2012 Shimano brakes are very good in my experience. No idea about the evo model (supposedly 15% more powerful), but the non-evo x2 are a touch less powerful and have more lever travel/wider modulation than the xt.
Watch this video though, and it makes you want the hopes, especially as they're after-service is possibly the best in the business:
I would go for the Hopes.
is there much weight difference between them ?
i've ALWAYS had Hopes, nowt else, and the XTR levers are sh1t - they look really cheap in comparison, but get great reviews.......
I had hope tech m4 and they were awful as in really bad. None of my Mates could understand why they were rubbish as hopes are meant to be great but mine were mince. Then I got the new xtr trails and my life is now complete and happy
I had hope tech m4 and they were awful as in really bad
User error I recon.
a touch less powerful
That's quite an understatement. If you [i]really[/i] lean on the Hopes, they will eventually bring you to a stop but they are nowhere near the same league as the XTRs, which are more powerful than 4 pot Saint DH brakes.
The Hopes look nicer than Shimanos and you'll be able to get spares for them should they pack up, but next to XTRs they are utterly hopeless when it comes to slowing your bike down, which is sort of what brakes are for...
i have tech M4's on all of my other bikes - awesome modulation, reliability and great pad life,
the xtr's on my mates look cheap and the lever action is nasty...
hope evo texch x2 ............i've decided !
That's maybe true. But I always thought you pulled back the lever and you stop. Unless you run hopes then they just look pretty leaned against your car fitted to your shiney bike
That's maybe true. But I always thought you pulled back the lever and you stop. Unless you run hopes then they just look pretty leaned against your car fitted to your shiney bike
Are you 30 stone with very weak hands? If not there was something seriously wrong with the brakes. Or is it just with Hopes you tend to pull gently to slow down gently, and pull a bit harder to stop. With the modern ones that's with one finger, with the old mini's it was two.
hope evo texch x2 ............i've decided !
You won't regret it