Yup, and like that article mentioned, a good way to get your pistons to go in all the way if there’s too much fluid. Attach funnel with fluid, push pistons in, extra fluid pushes out into the funnel.
Magura 
I’ve seen enough leaking lever bodies and their customer service in the US is not so hot. Probably better in socialist nightmare EU though (like the healthcare).
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re: Magura. I don’t care if the torque spec is a fraction of a newton meter, fuck a plastic bleed port screw.
re: Hope. MTB stuff is great. I want to try the RX4 caliper with sram road levers.
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I forgot about Magura. I like the look of those hi-vis ones.
I dream of having hopes on both mountian bikes, I need to have the same brakes on both bikes. I can buy a whole new bike for what that would cost. Not a super nice bike or anything, but damn.
How so? I used a cheap(ish) wet shimano brake on my sweet fixie for a time, and though it was really nice to not have to worry about bends in the line killing braking it wasn’t a revelation of any sort.
Hope on force1 levers feels better than my XTR on Ultegra levers wrt modulation. Mine stop better.
I get that olive deformation is “specific” to the lever that it’s paired to, but I’ve never encountered a situation where swapping lines without trimming barbs results in significant air permeation. Still gotta bleed the SRAMs once or twice a year anyway.
Just gotta torque it extra hard the second time to deform it again. AMIRITE?!
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send it
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I have hopes on both my mtbs, E4’s on the big one and X2’s on my ht. They use the same lever and everything, E4’s are dual piston and the X2 are single.
Buying them from the UK or Krautland™ wasn’t/isn’t much more expensive than buying a nicer set of Shimano/SRAM brakes. But maybe SRAM is almost free in the US?
From the UK
E4’s
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/us/en/hope-tech-3-e4-brake-no-rotor-2019/rp-prod185567
X2’s
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/us/en/hope-tech-3-x2-brake-no-rotor-2019/rp-prod185568
From Krautland™:
E4’s
X2’s
Do you have experience with good SRAM and Shimano hydros? Are the Hope better? What has the long term reliability been like?
I have XT on both bikes, I’ve pedaled around on friends bikes with hopes and XTR. Prefer the hopes by a considerable margin, i like my brakes weird, stiff and close to the bar. What most folks call modulation, ala sram, feels squishy and doesn’t inspire confidence.
That said, both bikes have squishy brakes have needed bleeds for like a year now but I dont have any Shimano oil in the garage.
1: don’t have any
2: can’t stand the smell
I’m just gonna go buy some Shimano oil, this is rediculous.
Haven’t ridden any Saint’s or XTR’s but had the old single pivot XT’s and liked them a lot. Haven’t ridden any SRAM better than Guide RS’s the came on my old Reign SX. I prefer the Hope’s over them all, such great modulation and no fade what so ever at any time. Tons of power if you grab a fistful of brake.
I really like the home serviceability of both the levers and callipers, super easy bleed, spare parts are readily available at fair prices for pretty much every part of the brake you could think of. Like when I snapped a brake blade in half: all I had to pay was 15$ for a replacement and I only needed a pair of tweezers to replace them. Loving the re-useable barb and olive as well. No bleed needed or problems for over two years.
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This is the stuff you want if you can’t find shimano mineral, or other ISO 7308 fluid. babby oil too thicc.
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Lol I can’t remember if face was still working at the same bike shop we were at when some engineer brought in his bike bled with baby oil that apparently failed, blew seals, and caused him to crash coming down a local mountain
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“I dont see why this shouldn’t work”
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Nope.
i agree with this. i do not like the sram squishy feel at all. i feel like i can modulate fine without that squishy feel that starts before the pads even hit the rotor.
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