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Submitted by
Bujor Vasile Lucian
a Cross Country Rider
from Craiova , Dolj , Romania
Date Reviewed: January 24, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$80.00 | | Purchased At: | second-hand dealer | | Strengths: | Lightweight , good strength whem used on light frames , XC purpose . | | Weaknesses: | Weak with organic pads . | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes MAG XC , Hayes El Camino | | Bike Setup: | Scott FX-30 Lite Flite , Deore hubs , Rigida Taurus wheels ,Shimano XTR Deraiours , Deore Switchers ,Marzocchi BOMBER MX Comp forck , Stratos O2-R Suspension . | | Bottom Line: | I am sorry for these problems , I realize how lucky I am by having these grait brakes functional ( I only bought one - rear - ) . I use it on Deore XT brake disk and I installed sintered metal calipers . The performace is unprecedent if o compare with cutting edge Hayes Brakes or Magura , besides i find it at a second hand store . No problems yet , even i have them for a month , i am a mad bull on that bike. I weight 90 Kilos but i ride fast and if there is a problem with this brake , by now i should find it ; i ride in winter and muddy conditions , especially below 0 . From 1 to 10 i give them 7.50 . | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bill
a Cross Country Rider
from NY
Date Reviewed: July 24, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | They do actually manage to stop the bike | | Weaknesses: | I spend just as much time adjusting them as I do riding the bike | | Similar Products Used: | Not sure, but I don't see anyone else fiddling with their brakes as much as me except for my friend who has the same bike | | Bike Setup: | Stock F300 | | Bottom Line: | I hope I'm posting to the right place. I see some posts for Disc brakes, I think thats another board. Anyway.
My friend has a Wal-Mart bike and he has less problems with his brakes.
I love everything about the bike except the brakes. Everytime I take the wheels off, the brakes have to be readjusted.
Just when I think I have them set perfectly, I go out riding and within a few miles, they are rubbing again. Brought the bike to the LBS to have them adjusted, it cost me $16. As soon as I got out on the road, they started rubbing again.
For $50 I'm gonna pick up a set of AVID SD 7's and be rid of them.
1 chili for value, because I'm sure Cannondale could have put better brakes on for very little addition cost to them or me. I would actually have preferred to pay an extra $10 if it meant decent brakes.
2 chili's overall, because they are not a danger to ride with. They do stop the bike, I just find them very annoying because they constantly have to be adjusted. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Erik Smith
a Cross Country Rider
from San Jose CA
Date Reviewed: May 14, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Limkin Trail/Los Gatos Creek | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$1500.00 | | Purchased At: | Calamar Cycles | | Strengths: | They look Cool | | Weaknesses: | Brakes need readjustment every ride.
Brake fails when you really need it.
Gets very weak when heated up.
| | Similar Products Used: | XTR/ XT V brakes | | Bike Setup: | 2001 Cannondale F1000 lefty ELO, Coda Expert Disk Brakes | | Bottom Line: | Three weeks after buying the bike it has been in for service 3 times. Brakes leaked fluid from caliper after first ride. Rear Brake failed completly losing all fluid in seconds during a "intermediate" trail decent. The bike shop said they refilled the fluid without fixing anything and said to "try to see if it leaks again". <--not the safest idea. Cannondale has not offered to replace even though its under warrenty and I am waiting for them to reply to my complaint.
The bike is great but the brakes are horrible.
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Submitted by
Ted
a Weekend Warrior
from McKinney, Texas, USA
Date Reviewed: November 10, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Erwin Park-Mckinney Texas | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Came on my bike | | Strengths: | I didn't have to buy them. They Came on my bike. So they didn't cost me | | Weaknesses: | I match what James said word for word Plus in addition I have gone through 5 sets of Pads. Ride through just a little sandy mud and be ready to replace the pads in the next 10 miles. I have to adjust the pads at every ride, Alchohol the roaters and clean the brake system with Dawn Detergent. They Creak,Screech,Slip and basically don't work well. Cannondale makes it difficult to change since you have to replace the Hubs and get your wheel rebuilt to change rotors | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Cannondale Jekyll 900SL full XTR and soon XT Disc Brakes when I can afford to buy hubs and get my wheels rebuilt. | | Bottom Line: | Cannondale doesn't offer these on their new bikes anymore instead you get Hayes or Magura with a universal hub.
My bike is sweet, My dealer; "Wheels and Fitness" is Great, The service that I have recieved from Jeff the Manager and Cannondale is fantastic! But these brakes Suck! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
james cleaver
a Racer
from euless tx usa
Date Reviewed: September 17, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Breaks at H ranch, St. Jo Tx. | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Wheels in motion, Richard,son Tx | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | Inconsistent braking power,pads get contaminated too easily,
squealing noises loud enough i feel like i am in the movie deliverance,modulation changes as you are riding,pads will not stay tight. | | Similar Products Used: | magura hydraulic rim brakes, xtr V brkaes | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale 3000sl jekyll | | Bottom Line: | these brakes came on my jekyll, they had poor breaking power to start but i was told to let them break in. they never really did. since then i have replaced kevlar pads with cintered pads, added brake line attachments to keep the lines from melting, have had to replace a front caliper, replaced a warped rear rotor, and have to set the pad gap on these brakes from ride to ride. I have done everything the cannondale dealer and phone rep has suggested, and they still squeal, suck and don't work consistently enough to race with them. i can not even ride 10 miles without the adjustment going out of wack. I am very patient with bike equipment, and also take very good care of my bikes, but i must say that these brakes are terrible!!!!! even my local cannondale dealer told me to quit wasting my money and get some hayes or magura.Beware of these if you buy a new cannondale, swap em for almost anything else they will put on the bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dan Johnson
a Cross Country Rider
from Worcester, MA 01604
Date Reviewed: August 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Leominster State Forest | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Bicycle Alley | | Strengths: | Easy to adjust and set up | | Weaknesses: | Loose a hydrolic line in the woods and you loose the brakes | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | 2001 Jekyll 1000 with a lefty and Coda Expert discs | | Bottom Line: | I have used these in all kinds of conditions and temps. I am 6' tall 260 lbs and have never had a problem stopping. The 2001 has a little black heat sink thing that attaches the hose and the caliper, this makes all the difference. I have a friend that has the 2000 expert disc's and on his bike they suck. For 2001 they added this heat sink thing and now I just have to adjust my breaks as the pads wear out and I am good to go. If these come on your bike I wouldn't upgrade unless you really have to have the "brand name" brake systems. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tommy
a
from fairfield, nj, usa
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | light weight | | Weaknesses: | no power | | Bottom Line: | worst disc ever | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rob P
a Cross Country Rider
from Bolton, Ontario. Canada
Date Reviewed: January 1, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | - Solid feel.
- Good modulation. | | Weaknesses: | - Stock "Green" pads aren't very good.
- Levers too close to bars.
- Not the best system around. | | Bike Setup: | Year 2000 Cannondale F2000 | | Bottom Line: | My bike was shipped with the old "Green" pads rather than the "Blue" pads that were supposed to have shipped on all year 2000 bikes (See http://www.cannondale.com/tech/pdfs/01_expert_brake_supp.pdf for pad type identification). I used them all summer and found that they were not powerful enough (I weigh 185lbs). I have since switched to the new sintered metal pad kit (with standoff tube) with great success. I was guaranteed by tech support at Cannondale (1-800-BIKEUSA) that these would do it for me and so far, I think they’re right. For those of you who are complaining about lack of braking power, I suggest that you call tech support and maybe if enough of us complain, they might recall the old ones... unfortunately, I had to pay for mine.
As for my complaint about the levers being too close to the bars... the levers can easily be modified. E-mail me for instructions.
And for those of you who are complaining about leaking... I have not had a problem with the Expert but I do know that Cannondale has discontinued the Competition brake due to this.
Overall, I like the brakes. Would I buy them seperately to install on my bike... probably not. But would I buy another Cannondale with the same brakes... For sure! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John Felty
a Cross Country Rider
from Tempe, Arizona
Date Reviewed: December 14, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Sunset | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Compact design. Lightweight | | Weaknesses: | Perpetual maintanence. Poor overall power. Lack of power reserve means any contamination of pad or rotor causes dangerous braking situation. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes | | Bike Setup: | 2000 900sx | | Bottom Line: | Bike Shops mechanic dream brake. Requires constant attention and adjustment. Things that have broken. Caliper seal failure on several calipers. Heat warped rotor. Multiple sets of pads @ $20 bucks each. I have now earned a PHD in Expert brakes, and I have tried any and all solutions ever posted on the web regarding getting these suckers to work. They are unpredictable and even the master coda mechanic cannot keep them set up for more than a couple of rides. BETA design. Cannondale had now said that these are for cross country only. This means that any situation that would require the use of expert brakes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Adam F
a Downhiller
from Alameda Ca, USA
Date Reviewed: November 29, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | linear stopping power at any speed, that doesn't fade away when heat is generated at pads. Easy to adjust. And all the other reasons disks are good...work great in wet muddy stuff, rims can be out of true...less rotational inertia of wheels... | | Weaknesses: | Need a clean well lit shop to service | | Similar Products Used: | shimano Vs, Hayes hydraulic | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale Hardtail XTR, Lefty | | Bottom Line: | Excellent power at speed. Good on steeps at slow speed. Haven't tried them at steeps at high speed yet but I have confidence in them. At first I was concerned about the power because they lack the grabbiness that v brakes have at slow speeds, but anyone who has ridden steeps with their hands full of V brakes knows how the power dramatically fades off as they get hot. These don't do that. I will never ride V brakes again. Those who want more consistent braking power, and or those who like the feel of wheels with really low rotational inertia would be wise to consider these. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hope to Stop
a Cross Country Rider
from FL
Date Reviewed: October 23, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Redick | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | International bikes | | Strengths: | They Look Like they can stop a bicycle! | | Weaknesses: | Sore Pinched fingers. | | Similar Products Used: | v-Brakes | | Bike Setup: | Jeckyl 3000 | | Bottom Line: | I normally don't Complain, But picture yourself desending down a 50 degree hill,with a tree 30 feet ahead, and you need to lock-up the rear and lean the bike to the left to make a 60 Degree turn. on a bike with V-Brakes NO PROBLEM!, With STATE OF THE ART Cannondale Experts your picking bark out of your ass. the brakes DO NOT LOCK UP. If State farm requirerd anti lock brakes on my bike I would Keep Your So Called "EXPERTS". But it looks like I'll have to shell out more money. I have to Admit that name sold me! I Have three bikes all totalling over $10,000 & the new bike is collecting dust in the Garage because cannondale dosen't require Testing before subjecting. & for The MORONS who Disagree, Happy Pickons! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
gavin
a Weekend Warrior
from canada
Date Reviewed: October 18, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | all | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | They stop the bike. Ease of ajustment | | Weaknesses: | You must be carefull not to contaminate the pads or rotors | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Raven 2000 | | Bottom Line: | Before I got this bike I read all the reviews, and came to this conclusion. People love or hate them, there seems to be no in-between, so I figure it's a set up or contaminate problem. How can one person say they stop great and the next say their crap. I was right, if you clean them regularly with Dawn dishwashing liquid, keed oil and grease away from the rotors and follow Cannondales instructions for beding in and adjustment, these things rock, they are better than any rim brake I've used. I have no squeal, no spongy feel and no problems, The bike (which is awesome) stops when I want, where I want. Just look after the bike and clean it regularly-which you should be doing anyway-and all will be great | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Paul
a Cross Country Rider
from Seattle, Wa
Date Reviewed: September 20, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Mukeiteo | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | When they are tuned they work great for 3 days of hard riding. | | Weaknesses: | Turned them in 5 times for Pressure loss and calipiers defaulting, had the calipiers replace twice. | | Similar Products Used: | V brakes | | Bike Setup: | 900 SL JEKYL XT XTR | | Bottom Line: | Waiting for Cannondale to step up to the plate and ask for a recall or let people trade them in for other Disc's at the cost. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Don
a Cross Country Rider
from San Diego, CA
Date Reviewed: September 11, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Iron Mountain | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$240.00 | | Weaknesses: | Ambient temperature sensitive. Start out at 7am in 60 degree weather with mushy breaks, at 10am in 80 degree weather the breaks work as setup. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes hydraulic, Magura Louise, Avid mechanical, Hayes mechanical | | Bike Setup: | SuperV with Lefty
Mavic 317 rims, original hubs
In the process of swapping out my Coda disks for Hayes HMX Mechanical (yes 100% mechanical 0% hydraulic) | | Bottom Line: | Follow up to a previous post dated 7-26-2000:
Funny thing happened, snapped my rear axel forcing me to switch back to a rim brake on the rear. I hate having two different brake levers so jumped at a buddies offer to let me use his Hayes Mechanical on my Lefty until I got my rear wheel back.
That Hayes Mechanical completely altered my thoughts on the Coda Expert brakes.
Codas:
Good modulation
Light weight
Stop only slightly better than a good V
Unbelievable ambient temperature issue (yes the damn things have been bled).
$240 US per wheel
Hayes Mechanical:
Good modulation
Heavier (but not much)
Stop almost as good as the Hayes hydraulic
$120 US per wheel
I considered the 2001 upgrade mentioned below, but balked at the "not for downhill use or when extended brakeing is required" My favorite trail is 30 minutes of near constant braking. Also would not resolve the ambient temperature issue.
I've also used the Avid mechanicals, they stop a little better than the Hayes, but have poor modulation.
Bottom line - If you own a Cannondale and can use non-Coda hubs then definately look at the Hayes or Avid mechanical brakes. They stop better than the Codas, cost half as much, and are much more reliable (read, duck tape will fix your cables in a pinch). If you own the Lefty you are SOL when it comes to the Avids, get the Hayes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dave watt
a Racer
from streetsville,on.,canada
Date Reviewed: August 16, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | sjdwatt@sympatico.ca | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | re-my sports | | Strengths: | work great in the dry | | Weaknesses: | the way the brakes come from c-dale, the organic pads self-destruct when water/mud are intrduced. c-dale will retro fit to 2001 specs, with heat sink line extensions, and semi-metalic pads. with this retro, the brakes are awesome in all conditions, the way discs should be. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano, hope, hayes | | Bike Setup: | y2k c-dale f-2000 | | Bottom Line: | a great hydralic disc package when fitted to 2001 specs. the bugs have finally been worked out!! try them, you'll like them!great for cross country racing, or weekend warriors that want consistent braking. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Don
a Cross Country Rider
from San Diego
Date Reviewed: July 26, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Weaknesses: | Proprietary 4-hole rotor bolt pattern
Temperature sensitive
While easily adjustable, fixed side looses adjustment without LocTite blue. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes (don't like), Magura Louise (why did I not wait for these) | | Bike Setup: | C-Dale SuperV with Lefty | | Bottom Line: | Brakes work better than V's, modulation is fantastic.
Very temperature sensitive. I'm not talking about the rotors heating up, I'm talking about starting out at 7am in the low 60s (F) with mushy brakes and then at 10am in the high 70s the brakes work great.
The culprit is the closed system. If I had it to do over again I would get the Magura Louise instead (now that they have a Coda rotor).
Price? high. Performance Bike is selling Shimano's new disk for $150 each, the Magura Louise for $170. $200+ for these brakes is pricy. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kevin Lenehan
a Weekend Warrior
from San Francisco
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Pocupine Ridge | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Great Modulation | | Weaknesses: | None yet | | Similar Products Used: | XTR Canti's, XT V's, and Coda Competition | | Bike Setup: | '99 F2000 | | Bottom Line: | Bike had '99 dual piston Competitions when new and had a lot of problems with pad contamination from fluid seepage. After 5 trips to the LBS they finally replaced the entire setup with '00 single piston Experts. The Experts are lighter stop much better, don't make any noise and modulate real well. I have had them buried in East coast muck at Avalon and they worked even better. SInce have moved to San Francisco and doing urban assaults is a blast. Tearing down a street at 40 MPH and stopping dead in 30 feet is a rush. I was really becoming discouraged until the LBS installed these new Experts. Too bad Cannondale uses paying customers for their product development. When you spend this kind of money you expect the best! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Patrick Joscelyne
a Weekend Warrior
from Bristol England
Date Reviewed: April 14, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | 3 Tunnels and Short sharp Shock North Downs UK | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Coda Expert is extremely light and has easy to adjust pads. Attractive and if kept clean, very powerful. If you buying aftermarket they're unbelieveable value if bought with coda hubs. | | Weaknesses: | Incredibly intolerant of contamination. Any form of dirt/dust or grime on pad or rotor reduces the brake to powerless squealing nightmare. Uncomfortable brake lever. had many modifications through the first 6 months before they worked reliably. | | Similar Products Used: | Coda Competition brake. Just as good looking but not quite as light. Extra adjustment at lever in super user friendly and had no problem with loss of power. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale Raven 1000disc, Raven900sx and most recently a Jekyll 200sl. | | Bottom Line: | The bottom line with Expert is that if you're buying today all early quality issues are sorted. The brake is still very intolerant of contamination on the rotor or pad. Keep them clean and they work really well. Not the super lock up of Hayes or Magura but then you don't want that downhill at 30mph. Great feel from an uncomfortable lever, you can tell exactly when it's going lock and that's a good thing.
Recomended for the weight conscious or in fact anybody with clean hands who likes to feel the brakeing point rather than just kiss dirt. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jensen Roth
a Weekend Warrior
from Clearwater, FL
Date Reviewed: March 15, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Bellview | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | They were on my bike when I bought it. | | Weaknesses: | They were on my bike when I bought it. They don't stop you when you need it!!! I have had them worked on 6 times. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F2000 SX | | Bottom Line: | I'm switching to Hayes! I'm tired of all the problems I've had with this whole experience. I don't think I'm being to hard on Cannondale but not being able to stop is important to me! Also the excuses I get from the cannondale rep. are the best. i.e..... "when the head shock first came out they had a 200% failure rate". I'm sorry this is braking we're talking about not a shock. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Shaun H.
a Cross Country Rider
from PJ NY
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | the nob | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Everthing | | Weaknesses: | People getting them confused w/ last years brake!!!! | | Similar Products Used: | magura luise | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale raven900sx | | Bottom Line: | OK, are you reading this review because you have coda expert brakes and they just don't seem to stop that well?
I'm a shop mech, in a very large shop and we deal with alot of cannondales w/ disc brakes, i can't stress this any more when you set up the coda expert disc's (not the comps) you must set the non- piston side up so that it just starts to drag and then set up the piston side so that it almost drags, and then ride them lightly on a short ride to bed in the pads, look carefully at the rotor is it like an un-true wheel, look at it after the break in ride. it will be straight as an arrow, then re-ajust the non-piston side that it just starts to drag again, this may take a few rides, but they will stop and danm good to, don't think you know everything and set them up so them don't drag they have to at first to bed pads. DON'T USE ANY BRAKE CLEANER OR DEGREASER TO CLEAN THE ROTORS!!!!. if they need to be cleaned,wich they probably don't,use dawn in hot water or alcohol. IF THE PADS GET OIL ON THEM FROM BLEEDING SEND THEM SWIMING WITH THE FISHES. always remove the pads before bleeding. Now if you are still have trouble, take them to an expert, or a shop that sells cannondale, most shops that don't carry cannondale, hate cannondale's, Because they don't understand good inovation. I'm not saying that cannondale brakes are the best, all i'm saying that they work very good, an anyone who is having problems with these brake are not taking the time to set them up right. peace, i will give them a 4, no one should get a 5. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dave Perrin
a Cross Country Rider
from Victoria, BC, Canada
Date Reviewed: February 22, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | The Dump | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | light weight
excellent modulation | | Weaknesses: | 4 bolt disks
spacers for caliper are annoying
| | Similar Products Used: | hayes and magura, but not enough to really compare | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Cannondale Raven 2000SL | | Bottom Line: | Dispite having heard bad things about coda brakes in the past, I have had a positive experience.
They are a little stronger than my xtr v's and the modulation is a lot better. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Big Hard AL
a Cross Country Rider
from U.K.
Date Reviewed: January 28, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | This Product is COOL,
i dont care what anyone else says, these brakes are cool.
I Have a Hope Pro 185, and compared to these, its CR*P.!
These discs have `magnetic calipers` thus meaning that no split pins are needed and changing pads are the most simplest thing to do on this planet.
The pads have holes drilled in the back of the pads. so, when there worn out, a hole appears. GREAT!! no more changing pads when there only half gone.
| | Weaknesses: | NONE, NOT NOW, NOT NEVER....COME ON, ITS CANNONDALE!! | | Similar Products Used: | HOPE PRO 185
Formular
Magura Hydrolic
| | Bike Setup: | F900 SX, + Some small personalisations.... | | Bottom Line: | The bottom line is that these discs are COOL. Hope have no chance now Cannondale are manufacturing things like this for less that half the price.
Hope used to be the best .... but im doubting that now...
Give them a go, you WILL BE suprised.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bike Master Mike
a Racer
from Canton, MI
Date Reviewed: January 12, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Island Lake | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Look Kinda Cool
Bleeding is pretty easy | | Weaknesses: | Everything
They Dont stop a damn thing
Even after break in, they dont stop
Levers feel like crap
CHEESEBALL SHIMS TO SPACE THEM OUT!!!! WHAT IS THAT CRAP!???? Crappy American bike parts....oh wait,Im American, dont we have some crappy bike parts here?The designer of the brakes deserves a good pimp slap. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes, Magura, Rock Shox (Hope) | | Bike Setup: | C-Dale F4000, F2000, F900 SX...... | | Bottom Line: | Im a mechanic at a shop. I have never seen such dumb designs...in everything but the bleeding techniques. They got ones thing right. That means they get one flaming turd. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kevin
a Cross-Country Rider
from KC, MO
Date Reviewed: December 3, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
ANY TRAIL | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Modulation | | Weaknesses: |
none yet | | Similar Products Used: |
Magura Louise
Coda Competition | | Bike Setup: |
raven | | Bottom Line: | I haven’t had one problem yet. I was a bit worried when I took the caliper out of the baggie to see fluid on the outside near the bleed nipple. This was cleaned and I never saw it again. (I assume it was left-over from when they were filled.) I babied them for about a week to bed them in properly and then used them like any other brake. Cannondale has these brakes sorted. The Coda Competitions, however, I have never seen work properly for any length of time. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ryan Malloy
a Racer
from Houston, TX
Date Reviewed: November 26, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Lynn Hardy | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Great modulation, all weather capability, very comparable in weight to a set of v-brakes | | Similar Products Used: |
Coda Comp disc
LX v-brake set-up | | Bike Setup: |
F-2000 SX | | Bottom Line: | These brakes are good no matter what anyone says about them. If they aren't good then they aren't set up right. I am still getting used to the levers because they are kinda big compared to my LX's. Cheers and good trails. | | Overall Rating: |
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