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Anyone use these?
They seem to be cheaper than the standard (single piston) XT brakes, and use the same caliper; it's just the lever that's different
Got these levers on my bike. not sure my callipers are touring ones tough as they are XT 4 pots... I like the power the callipers deliver, but dislike the lever profile. Would rather have one finger lever blades than the massive touring ones.
You can't switch over just the lever blades I believe... You need to switch the whole lever assembly.
hmm, so they don't really work with one-finger?
From the photos, they look to me quite similar to Hope's lever shape. So I figured they may be OK, especially as they'll be on a singlespeed, meaning I could put them as far inboard as I needed
Perhaps I'm being optimistic?
I try to use them single fingered by moving the clamp position further inboard... It sort of works, but is a compromise with reach and bite point. I think the Hope levers are more adjustable on that front.
You might get on with them fine. My other bikes are Shimano single digit blades so the trekking ones always feel odd to me and I'd change them if it didn't cost best part of a ton to do.
Bought some quite a few years back, as I prefer lots of fingers pulling my levers. Worked fine when they worked, but suffered the same fate as lots of Shimano brakes (4 calipers, and 2 sets of levers failed in 2years), went back to Hopes, and been trouble free for years.
Thanks for the replies, may be it's time for me to finally try something non-Shimano...
may be it’s time for me to finally try something non-Shimano…
What is the application. I've some new Tech 3 Hopes.
(New levers, new pair of V2 calipers in black with green bore caps, or new E4 and new X2 in purple.) So you could have purple E4/X2 on black levers, which have purple lids, or levers/calipers on the V2 set up and i have hope green lids to put on the levers, though they dont match fully, seems theres a colour difference in greens..
@dyna-ti thanks for the offer. I think I will put my new-brake plan on hold for now and see what I need. It's currently just an XC/trail single speed so have never really needed major braking power, but I may start riding some proper mountains next year and will thus upgrade brakes accordingly
I use them one fingered on All my bikes, free power by virtue of a longer lever. They're great!
To make longer levers more usable with one finger, I swap the shifters/brakes around, so that the levers are inboard of the shifters.
It feels much more natural, for me.