Thread: What kind of performance should I expect from Avid BB7s?
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Old 04-25-12 | 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MileHighMark
It could be any number of things. Like everyone said, they need to break in. This means slow, deliberate stopping where the pads and rotors "bed in." If you or the mechanic just hauled ass down a steep hill, that's not cutting it (and is actually worse).

Some questions:
  • Are the rotors straight/true?
  • Are the calipers positioned correctly?
  • Are the cables/housing of good quality and routed smoothly?
  • Which levers are you running?
  • Are the BB7s the road or mtb version?

BB7s are good brakes that are easy to set up. Unfortunately, some folks just don't "get it," and you end up with poor performance.
Unless I missed something... it took 43 posts for this to get mentioned?

With my BB5 and BB7 bikes, proper alignment turned them from "okay" to "really, really good". It takes all of five minutes to do, too.

The hardest thing about setting up discs is truing the rotor, and that's not even very hard, either.
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