Originally Posted by
voyager1
I guess I probably should have narrowed down more costly. I have been reading up on the discs, and the whole idea of the fluid having to be purged from the hyrdraulic just gave me a lot of pause. So I was guess that mechanical ones were maybe a little less costly to maintain.
I am not the best at descending and so I was looking at discs, but the whole cost question was kinda putting a stop to it.
Sorry wasn’t trying to start a forum war.
I've needed to have my brakes bled. I'm heavy but road standards, was doing a fast descent from a mountain pass, and got passed closely by a line of cars. Breezy day and I wanted to be slow and in control when they went by.
It costs about $40 per line, maybe less in other markets. The brakes still work when they need to be bled, but you have very little control over how much braking force, and the levers just feel bad.