Originally Posted by
well biked
Just curious, but have you ridden with Shimano parallel push brakes? I have parallel push XT's from several years ago, the front brake yelps, barks, and whines, but the bike stops on a dime. Paired with Shimano Servo Wave levers, it's an incredibly powerful brake setup-
Been riding shimano V Brakes since 97. I have ridden older non parallel LX brakes that worked great. Got a hold of some new LX V's with the parallel push and was very disappointed. Upgraded to XT and it was a little better. Two years ago I went with the Avid single digit 7's and they are much better than the XT's. All that linakage adds flex which robs braking power. I do have the XT levers and they rock. With my XT's I never did have a squeeling problem up front and back then I was on Mavic rims. Have you noticed that the new 08 XT's don't have the parallel push.