Yeah, that's exactly what I said - that I did not know how they would've performed out on the road, because I never actually took them out on the road. They probably would've been fine - great, even - but I won't have a way of knowing that unless I actually put the whole system back on the bike and take it out for a ride. As I clearly said elsewhere, the reason I decided to go down the route of resurrecting the Shimano hydraulic brakes was one of both frustration with getting the Zooms well adjusted, and of convenience - the MT401 brake lever just happened to arrive when I needed it, so it was just a better use of my time to reassemble the Shimanos and be done with it. I never said anything about the Zooms being poor-performing brakes, even though stan01 - the new guy - seemed to have gathered as much from what I wrote.