Probably helps people here rock Transition hard, and they have been coming on their bikes for the last few years. I would say the DH Evo Pro lever blade has more of a shimano shape vs the regular EVO (much longer blade). That old lever is one reason people moved to the aftermarket from Freedom Coast or OAK components. But they also did a running change to the knob to adjust lever and added more detents to bring it in closer. New Pro also gives some bite point adjustment, which is a nice addition, though I never felt like I needed it (but again, I run far enough away from the bar). It can reduce the deadstroke quite a bit.
I always said it was Shimano power but added more SRAM modulation.
i love mine ive never bled them in like 4 years, just changed pads and they still feel Hella good, I dunno if id buy em if they didn’t come on my bike coz expensive but i like em a lot, usually have Shimano but
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everyone I know is on Dominions, except weird nerds that splashed out for the new schraem maeyvens or whatever. I love em.
tbh also dealing with some mineral oil brake bleeding in between my every few weeks bleeds of goddamn sram codes, I think I actually prefer dot fluid. The slipperiness of mineral oil annoys the crap out of me.
I’m all in on mineral cause if you don’t ride a bike for a year the brakes still work.
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Yeah that is nice. The tektro brakes on my cargo bike have no right to be functioning as well as they are.
this is actually a good consideration for a park bike. it’s used like 4 months out of the year, then sits for 8 months.
the irony here is if i got this newer version of the bike it already has TRP EVO DH-R brakes, but i like the color of the previous version better and that one has a coil.
Weird, my DOT Hope 3’s have never needed to be bled for years at a time.
Way more stable and no wandering bite point like Shimano.
Nobody reading bikesnob anymore? He did a thing on mountain bikes that got passed around a bit.
He’s not ‘must-read’ for me any more but he still has some bangers:
It’s sort of like there was a band called “Mountain Biking,” and when they broke up one member kept the rights to the name and took it in a completely different direction. Meanwhile, the rest of the band kept the same sound, only they had to call themselves “The Gravel Bros” for legal reasons.
FWIW just about all the shop affiliated riders who regularly head west to do gravity oriented stuff are on TRP at this point and very happy.
We had a weird blip of a bad run of pads that glazed super easily, but that was it. No leaking. No warranties. The thicker rotors are well liked.
TRP warranty support for other brakes (Tektro and a Slate caliper issue) has been stellar.
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lol so bikesnob is just fully old man yells at cloud at this point?
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He has been since at least when last I checked in with him 5+ years ago.
But also if yelling at clouds is being incredulous at Specialized’s claims that 80% of mountain bike sales will be eMTBs, let him cook.
I’m getting kinda curmudgeonly myself seeing (and participating in) the Bentonville trails where eMTBs riding up a hill on turbo and then blasting down perfectly built flow trails over and over. It’s nothing like east coast slowly picking your way through tech rock gardens for an hour to get to 5 minutes of decently flowy unbuilt trail. This is how we get to fuck it we ATB.
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Is it really crazy to suggest that pedaling is part of cycling? Or that a two wheel device with a motor is significantly different than one without?
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Eh, if someone finds the experience better with 20 pounds of battery and motor, more power to them. I’m working on getting over the feelings of resentment coming from getting dropped by someone I perceive as cheating (which is dumb since I am slow as hell and get dropped regularly by non-emtbs).
Maybe 1 in 10 emtbers has been an asshole about me getting in their way, but fuck them. Everyone else is kind of just out doing their thing.
I think my perspective changed when I rented an e-bike at a bike park, had a blast riding it, then rode my non-e a few days later at the same park and had more fun since the bike just handled so much better. Helped reframe that the e-bike wasn’t all benefits no downsides like the marketing departments have been bleating about
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I try to be open minded and enjoy my e-bike on the streets but dealing with packs of guys in their 20’s with more disposable cash than bike handling skills on two way trails on Long Island is a little much.
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No point riding e-bike at bike park. You’re getting uplift to the top. I want one for my local hill but wouldn’t want to add even 10 lbs tbh (real world probably wouldn’t notice a difference between analog and a top of the line lightweight e-bike).
Oh yeah, point of clarification this was at bike glendhu in New Zealand - so you get a wristband for access but there’s no lift. I kind of get this type of park getting more popular since having a rental e-bike fleet probably makes it easier to open a small park than forking out the cash for a chairlift
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Yeah that sounds cool. I do hope for more stuff like that, I think?
You just described every Cat 5 event.
Out here, I find it hilarious that shuttle bros bitch about eMTBs. They’re basically the same pedaon.
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I both love my ebike and hate the average middle aged male ebiker.
I think ebikes have too much power and when placed in the hands of an overconfident over the hill white dude, they just blast by people on turbo going twice the speed and often not even telling people they’re coming up from behind.
On trail, i usually only ride marginally faster on the ebike.. i still want to enjoy nature and have an experience, just maybe letting my legs catch a break by being able to stay in zone 2.
It feels completely unnecessary to climb above level 3 (out of 5 levels) on my bike. Not only that but it kind of sucks on tech because you slam into every rock.
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