I've got Code RSC brakes with the standard sintered pads and 200mm discs and really struggled with them 3 weeks ago in the Bourg area(Les Arcs, Tignes, La Thuile and Pila). Kept overheating them, the back brake in particular, lever sinking back to the bars and having to pump the lever on the fly to build the bite point back up. Affected my confidence/flow and spoiled it a little for me as a couldn't push quite as much. It wasn't air in the system as when they cooled the feeling came back just fine. Reading through some of these comments though it seems like its a matter of poor technique on my part by being such a brake dragger and not going brake, roll, brake ,roll. Certainly something to work on and try to remedy before I hope to go again in another couple of years time.
I’m clearly a serial back brake dragger given the colour of my rear disk and that I used 2 lots of pads for the rear and 1 for the front. I get the theory of roll and brake but on the steep stuff in the Alps as soon as your off the brakes your going too fast for my simple brains self preservation mode to allow
I’ve got Code RSC brakes with the standard sintered pads and 200mm discs and really struggled with them 3 weeks ago in the Bourg area(Les Arcs, Tignes, La Thuile and Pila). Kept overheating them, the back brake in particular, lever sinking back to the bars and having to pump the lever on the fly to build the bite point back up. Affected my confidence/flow and spoiled it a little for me as a couldn’t push quite as much. It wasn’t air in the system as when they cooled the feeling came back just fine. Reading through some of these comments though it seems like its a matter of poor technique on my part by being such a brake dragger and not going brake, roll, brake ,roll. Certainly something to work on and try to remedy before I hope to go again in another couple of years time.
This is the reverse of what I found when I put Code RSC's on my bike for my last alps trip! different strokes for differnet folks I guess! Still on the same RSC's with race e matrix pads in and 220mm front and rear.
Just back from a week in Les Arcs.
Was running Cura 2 with 220 Magura rotors and Trickstuff pads. No problems at all. Loads of power and they definitely got really hot - my rear rotor has some interesting darker colours and the calliper was still warm 10 minutes after getting back to the chalet.
I think the main takeaway is big rotors and good pads. You can't go too big on the rotors I would say.
I agree. 220 front and 200 rear are pretty much unboilable IME.
I get the theory of roll and brake but on the steep stuff in the Alps as soon as your off the brakes your going too fast for my simple brains self preservation mode to allow
Ha ha, yeah, I always say it’s like being dropped off a cliff. It does get better the more you’re out there though.
Resin pads all day long in the Alps after learning the hard way on day one . Metalic pads and 203 rotors cooked
2nd year out there Galfer resin pads E4 brakes 203 ice tech rotors no power loss braking and no bluing or screaming from the brakes, just a pad swap after day 3
Trusty - just the trails on the other side of the water pipes as far as I’m aware.
Spent today cruising around Morzine....
The number of folks I followed with squealing brakes because they were dragging them through every turn, down every swoopy section..... This in turn means I'm on the brakes and my pads start to suffer.
The number of folk who don't know how to ride/brake is crazy.....
Remind me not to visit bike parks during the school holidays (usually go end of August when most kids/families are back home).
Race matrix in the pyranees last year, horrendous howling for three days same as another in the group, swapped to galfer black standard on the guides recomendation, instant silence....as far as im aware galfur make hope pads.
I was amazed pads could make such a diffrrence and assumed i was over braking, but no, its like they have never been tested on bigger descents..