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Jack of all trades: Avid’s new Elixir brakes

By Mike Smith ⋅ April 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Avid showed off their new Elixir brakes at Sea Otter. The Elixir boats more power and better modulation than the Juicy line, while managing to shed some weight at the same time.

Gatorbrake’s eight piston disc brake

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 22, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Are your measly Magura Gustav or Hope M4 brakes, with their four hopelessly inadequate pistons just not living up to your expectations? Gatorbrake hopes so, and thinks that their biggest model, with double the pistons (and therefore double the awesome) of other downhill brakes will satisfy your need for motorcycle-level stopping power.
The apparently unnamed eight-pot brake has a CNC […]

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