XT M8100 Brakes, an...
 

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[Closed] XT M8100 Brakes, anybody got some? Any good?

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Specifically has anybody suffered from the wandering bite point issue?

I know that many will say get a proper bleed but my M9000 & M8000 brakes have been bled many, many times by me and the LBS, still a bit naff.


 
Posted : 03/12/2019 10:26 am
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Interested in this for a new 29er build - have they sorted them leaky caliper seals?


 
Posted : 05/12/2019 8:39 am
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Yes, other half has some on her long term test bike. Already been replaced once by Madison for wandery bite points.

Good old Shimano 😆


 
Posted : 05/12/2019 10:07 am
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In before someone with n sets of non wandering bite xt brakes tells you that it's your own fault for not bleeding them properly.


 
Posted : 05/12/2019 11:08 am
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Always loved M7800 brakes, but I've had both 2-pot and 4-pot M8100 brakes on my bike and I'm not impressed. The front one 'pumps up' really fast, even under my 'slow old bloke in the Surrey Hills' stye riding.


 
Posted : 05/12/2019 12:16 pm
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The only difference is at the calipers so this will make no difference to the wandering bite point issue.
I don't really find it an issue ... appreciate others might but couple of pumps after its been on an uplift or upside down in the car.

I fitted some 7120 calipers as I gopt 2 for £80 and the already face wrenching deceleration on a 203/180 with my 75kg wet through from M7000/M8000 (which are identical anyway) is better modulated... if I weighed a lot more they might actually stop me faster.... but the increased modulation is quite nice once I got used to it...


 
Posted : 05/12/2019 12:25 pm

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