Originally Posted by
sjanzeir
The gunman has a name: "Out of Stock." His motivation? Trying to swap my bike's crappy BB5-based mechanical disk brakes for quality ones that aren't available anywhere in the Western hemisphere (i.e. vendors in Europe and North America.) Dire times.
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Jenson shows BB7s (mechanical upgrade over the bb5s) and Deore hydros in stock.
I’d go that route and see what the gunman does from there.
Honestly, I’d probably just stick with the bb5s and upgrade the cables/housing to compression-less (if it is not already) before I start dealing with Aliexpress or portential counterfeits.