All of these boutique brakes are not as great as DA, Record/Chorus or all of SRAM. I fell into the hype and luckily I found a weight weenie who bought it and I lost 10 bucks plus shipping. I think SRAM is the strongest maybe due to their MTB lineage. Yeah I read the manual and tweaked it and put on those Yellow Koolstops. Shimano or SRAm for sure. Campy is always weaker unless you have perfectly true and stiff wheels then you can get them to be as strong as the other 2 by running them closer.