Originally Posted by
akexpress
My opinion of the Hy/Rd is good with the caveat that it is sensitive to cable adjustment. It does not have a long throw and the best braking is near the lever at the bar so if the pads wear and you don't adjust for that it becomes ineffective.
Aye, there's the rub, or rather the lack of rub. With Campy shifters, the throw was inadequate for BB7, and required a brake booster. The TRP Spyre has been much better, and I am obtaining engagement within the first 1/3 of the lever travel. With a lot of brake use, this will need to be adjusted, but this is really easy with the symmetrically squeezing dual piston Spyre.
I want to make every millimeter of lever action count, and to that end I am going to revise my brake cable to straighten its path. I also want the cable housing to be as compression-less as possible. I started a thread on Weight Weenies to ask about the least compressionable brake cable housing, and the learned consensus was Nokons.
Brake cable housing for road disc.
Originally Posted by "madcow"
We've recently built a brake test jig and have tested a bunch of caliper brakes, once we write and publish the results we'll be using the same jig to do some testing on brake levers, cables and perhaps of more interest to you cable housing compression. My gut feeling is that Nokon will top the chart in compression.