The issue with those Zoom brakes is not that they don't bite, but rather that they may be prone to failure. The other issue, of course, at least for me is why BF dares to spec these brakes on a $2,700 bike and why people don't seem to care. It's an example of that insidious bias on this channel. The more expensive the bike, the less critical folks are off it, with the converse being equally true. A sad corollary to the earlier channel theorem is that the same part on a cheap and on an expensive bike is more favorably appraised on the latter.
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