Avid Juicy Ultimate Disc Brake with 160mm Rotor Juicy Ultimate: It\'s not called Ultimate because it\'s just ok. A few grams here, a few grams there...not a huge change in... more
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Avid Juicy Ultimate Disc Brake with 160mm Rotor Juicy Ultimate: It\'s not called Ultimate because it\'s just ok. A few grams here, a few grams there...not a huge change in itself. But when you shave off almost 50 grams and you maintain the best performance and the most advanced features on the market now you\'re talking about a big difference. A difference that helps you ride faster and with more control. It\'s a hands down essential for the discriminating XC brake-o-phile. Where\'s the knob? When you make a brake as light as the Juicy Ultimate, the last thing you want to do is bulk it up with a knob that weighs a gram or two. That\'s why Juicy Ultimate\'s Contact-Point Adjustment is tucked away inside this stealthy opening. All you need is a 2.5mm hex wrench...or you\'re RockShox rebound adjuster. Clever, huh? Unique to Juicy Ultimate: Magnesium lever body Forged Monoblok™ calliper body Special Features: Carbon lever blade Pad Contact-Point Adjustment Tri-Align™ Caliper Positioning System™ Power Reserve Geometry™ Ambidextrous Split Clamp/Matchmaker™ compatible Drip-free bleeding Intended Use: Light weight Cross Country Finish: Stealth Black Rotor Sizes: 160mm,185mm front only, 140mm rear only Rotor Design: New G2 Clean Sweep Mounts:Front - Fits both I.S. and Post mount Rear - Fits I.S. only Weight: 345g (front post mount 160mm)
Advantages: Easy to fit and maintain plus great price Disadvantages: Will need adjusting from time to time
...of lower-priced hydraulic brakes as an alternative to the BB7s, check out a set of Hayes HFX-9s or AvidJuicy 5s - both brakes offer quality hydraulic stopping power for only a little more money than the BB7s.
Durability:
Avid utilizes a series of seals on the BB7 calipers that keeps dust, grit, and mud out of the assembly and, as a result, I had no major issues with the Avid BB7 calipers during the product test. While I'd like to see greater durability from the pads - some sets of pads lasted a couple of months while others had a much shorter lifespan - the brakes themselves functioned the same on the first day I mounted them as the day I wrote this review.
Pricing:
Buy Avid BB7 discbrakes at Wiggle.com MSRP for the Avid BB7 discbrakes is £79.99 so they're affordably priced when compared to most of their hydraulic counterparts. Keep in mind...
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Advantages: Good breaking power Disadvantages: nothing
...I recently bought a set of replacement pads for my AVIDJuicy 3 brakes. These came in at £15 for a pair for the front. They seem to vary in price by a few pounds, thi was from a well known online MTB shop in the lakes.
Being a discbrake novice I didn't have a clue how to fit them so rather than break them or waste time finding out I got a mate to do it for me.
Other than the actual fitting the one thing I did do was to lightly rub down the pads before fitting them. I was told this is a good idea as it reduces the chances of the pads glazing over and gives you better breaking power earlier on, guess this is like I used to do with my standard V-Brake pads. I think that is roughly 1000 miles of use on my old pads. I tend to change them early as I did with V-brakes, not sure that is necessary with discs though (not at this price...
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Advantages: Excellent lever feel, stopping power, durability Disadvantages: when they squeel, they REALLY squeel
...I've been mountain biking for many years now and over time I've tried a wide array of braking systems on my various bikes. I was always a huge fan of Avid's braking products and had test ridden a number of bikes with their Juicydiscs on before deciding on the right bike for me and taking the plunge into speccing my own custom build. The bike was to be a Yeti 575 and the brake choice came down to the Hope Mono minis (as fitted to my Orange), AvidJuicys and the Shimano XT. I chose Shimano for various reasons and the following review will hopefully outline why I took this course of action over the much hyped Hope and Avids.
Having tested various systems on demo bikes around the country, it seemed to me that there was little to choose between the braking characteristics of my shortlisted products. However, the Shimano just edged...
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