KCNC brakes
02-01-09, 05:23 PM
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KCNC brakes
Bought a pair on eBay recently. Mounted them on my S-Works E5 with Ultegra 6600 levers. Rode them for 4.5 hours today in dry, wet and slush-encrusted conditions. They work great. Preliminary evaluation puts them right up there with Ultegra and DA, which I consider bulletproof. And, they are light as can be. Any other impressions?
02-01-09, 06:49 PM
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Yeah, I call bullsh*t on the dent post too...
Calipers are in a location that kind of precludes getting dented.
I have KCNC calipers. The stock pads suck a mile of wee-wee. With Dura-Ace and SS yellows, they works fine. My old Mavic SSC calipers were stronger, but not to the point of really worrying about it.
Calipers are in a location that kind of precludes getting dented.
I have KCNC calipers. The stock pads suck a mile of wee-wee. With Dura-Ace and SS yellows, they works fine. My old Mavic SSC calipers were stronger, but not to the point of really worrying about it.
02-01-09, 08:00 PM
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KCNC brakes and much more are discussed at the legendary Fairwheel lightweight brakes review.
02-01-09, 08:06 PM
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I had KCNC brakes. I thought they were fine until I started doing repeats on one of the local mountains (Mt Hamilton for you bay areans). It's a very twisty road so the descent requires frequent braking. After a few weeks of doing it every weekend I was getting pain in my left hand. It got bad enough that I couldn't use it to hold on to the car's steering wheel to drive home. Thats when I went back to DA brakes. I need to be able to type in order to work.
This use is pretty extreme- not many people do 32 miles of twisty descent in a day, week after week. I thought that they were ok for regular use. Not as strong as DA brakes, for sure, and they had more friction and stronger springs (which is why I eventually had problems with them). If you don't ride in the mountains as much or have stronger hands than I do you shouldn't have a problem. The pads they come with are not very good.
This use is pretty extreme- not many people do 32 miles of twisty descent in a day, week after week. I thought that they were ok for regular use. Not as strong as DA brakes, for sure, and they had more friction and stronger springs (which is why I eventually had problems with them). If you don't ride in the mountains as much or have stronger hands than I do you shouldn't have a problem. The pads they come with are not very good.
02-01-09, 08:54 PM
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Yeah, I call bullsh*t on the dent post too...
Calipers are in a location that kind of precludes getting dented.
I have KCNC calipers. The stock pads suck a mile of wee-wee. With Dura-Ace and SS yellows, they works fine. My old Mavic SSC calipers were stronger, but not to the point of really worrying about it.
Calipers are in a location that kind of precludes getting dented.
I have KCNC calipers. The stock pads suck a mile of wee-wee. With Dura-Ace and SS yellows, they works fine. My old Mavic SSC calipers were stronger, but not to the point of really worrying about it.
02-02-09, 06:11 AM
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Operator error if you found a way to dent the arms.
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