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Submitted by
Daniel A
a Weekend Warrior
from Kissimmee, Florida, USA
Date Reviewed: September 5, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Santos | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came with the Bike | | Strengths: | Good calipers. Easy to adjust. Not bad looking | | Weaknesses: | Pads and levers | | Similar Products Used: | Avid Ti, and Koolmax Pads | | Bike Setup: | 08 Rockhopper | | Bottom Line: | I don't know why so many people complain. These are not $200 Disk brakes.
I changed my Pads to the KoolMax MTB Dual Compound and the AVID SD Ti Levers and I outbreak my buddies bike with his expensive Disk breaks. The calipers are great as far as I'm concerned and do not need an upgrade until they break; once they do I'll be going to disks. For now, with my current setup, they are as good as v-brakes can possibly get. I'm setting the overal rating based on a mixture of my original and new setup. It will take you about $20 to upgrade to the Koolmax pads, that will be more than satisfactory if you are unsatisfied with your stock setup.
I would not buy the ProMax setup if I had to buy it new though. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Quen Turman
a Weekend Warrior
from Norfolk, VA USA
Date Reviewed: February 21, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Hardwood Mills | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came on bike | | Strengths: | Good brake for a an easy rider | | Weaknesses: | Not good when wet or dirty | | Similar Products Used: | Avid SD 2.0 and Avid SD 3.0 | | Bike Setup: | 2004 Trek 4500 and 2006 Trek 4500 | | Bottom Line: | They're not horrid brakes, but I due recomend swapping them out for a better set if you're a heavy braker. I've swapped out the one set I've had on a trail bike. I put them on a commuter bike and haven't had any problems with them. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
WormMan
a Weekend Warrior
from Canada!
Date Reviewed: April 12, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Came on Bike | | Strengths: | Awsome stopping power, lock up back even with my kinetics tire! Easily lock the front on a slightly loose sirface, or stick the ass in the air for an awsome brake stand! Never get hot! | | Weaknesses: | Squeek under moderate to hard pressure, but only on the front, wont go away
Rubbed the paint off my rims, but thats expected
Sand and mud gets stuck under the pads and makes a constant scraping noise until it all falls out | | Similar Products Used: | Othe v-brakes, old school caliper brakes, coaster brakes(the best no heat no pads no derailer) lol | | Bike Setup: | Ironhorse Patrol | | Bottom Line: | More stopping power than you need for sure, until you get them wet, then you should prey as these brakes will take a good distance to stop you, just as with any v brake(this is where disks are better), the squeel is horrible are there any brakes out there that dont? I am thinking about going for a disk on front, but all the disks seem to squeel too...wtf?
Good stoping power tho! And only need a slight adjustment from where the pads wore last summer! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a Weekend Warrior
from Gulfport, MS
Date Reviewed: February 28, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | They stop okay....just okay | | Weaknesses: | Noisy, adjusting is a pain, the springs arn't very good at all. One side is always touching the rim. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano | | Bike Setup: | Mountian Bike | | Bottom Line: | Only with a new bike | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nate
a Cross Country Rider
from Clarks summit, PA
Date Reviewed: October 31, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came with the Bike | | Strengths: | Quick Stops | | Weaknesses: | the springs are week I think because they do not pop back out all the time and rub the rims | | Bike Setup: | Haro, everything but the breaks is Shimano LX, Raceface, RS Judys | | Bottom Line: | There pretty good but I wouldn't recomend buying them unless they come with the bike. I plan on upgrading very soon. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Niels Joubert
a Weekend Warrior
from Stellenbosch, South Africa
Date Reviewed: October 23, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Came with my bike | | Strengths: | Very good stopping power. Nice design. | | Weaknesses: | With the internal springs, my one brake pad still toughes the rim after i released the brakes. It seems to me that the springs does not work very good. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Acera | | Bike Setup: | Diamondback Vectra with Shimano Acera Shifters and Shimano Promax brakes. Looking for good shocks. | | Bottom Line: | These are very good brakes with nice stopping power. It is difficult to adjust the position of the brakes. My internal springs are gone (ok, after 2 years of driving), or that is all that I can think why the brakes now does this. If you pull the brake lever and then release it, the brake releases, but only the one side moves away, the other side is still touching the rim. That is not a real problem, but if the rims are wet, it makes the most horrible sound.
The bottom line is tha this is a good brake, but rather spend a little more. I am now upgrading to the Simano Acera V-brakes, and they are much better for only a little more $$$. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sebastian Oh
a Cross-Country Rider
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: September 11, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Bishan Park | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Good braking | | Weaknesses: |
Noisy | | Similar Products Used: |
Caliper brakes | | Bike Setup: |
GT Aggressor , RST Mozo Pro suspension fork | | Bottom Line: | Very good braking ... great product. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kai Brinker
a Weekend Warrior
from Vestal, NY
Date Reviewed: July 14, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Vestal Highlands Trail | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Strong
Pulses | | Weaknesses: |
Strong
Pulses | | Similar Products Used: |
Cheap old Shimano brakes | | Bike Setup: |
See 1999 Sorrento SE listing. | | Bottom Line: | Great, but hard to get used to if your used to old cheap wire brakes. But really safe. Best Example: I was going down my street, and I reached 42.8 MPH. This car under estimates me (as usual) and I needed to do a deer avodence thing. I pulsed the brake (or it pulsed its self), skided a bit, did a 75 degree left turn, avoided the car. These are really good brakes. | | Overall Rating: |
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