Originally Posted by
johnMATX
Brand new pre bled XTR brakes w/ pads installed out of the box. The brakes were a bled a total of 4 time 2 times by me 2 time by my LBS, installed brand new Shimano rotors you can still pedal thru. I can grab any bike off the rack with bottom line shimano brakes and they hold. Just not real impressed, fixing to ship these back, they said they will send me a new pair. The fact they were very low in fluid out of the box gave me a bad feeling. Let see how the next set is
I have several sets of XTR brakes. On one bike I could use a death grip and couldn't lock the wheels. The last 3 feet of stopping even dry would squeal like crazy.
If they got wet forget it. I applied no squeal compound to the back of the pads, chamfered the edges with a dremel and still crap. I was about to give up.
I found out the pads were metallic and replaced them with XTR M07 resin pads, and what a difference, perfect brakes.