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Old 02-23-23 | 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by grolby
To be fair a lot of brakes use the glycol ether-based DOT 5.1...
Not at this price point. Tektros and the simplest Shimanos are endemic. My family now has five bikes with them. The cheapest SRAM brake only tends to appear on mountain bikes, especially fat bikes. No other DOT brake is cheap. DOT is pretty much only for nerds who opt in
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