many SRAM mountain bike disc brakes). Or perhaps I was overconfident in my abilities, worked too fast, or made careless ...

This is a massive change: Since 2004, SRAM's mountain bike brakes have used DOT fluid almost exclusively, the only exceptions being DB8 (2022) and the Maven (2024). I’ve asked SRAM multiple ...

The servo, receiver, power stabilizer, and batteries were all mounted on a custom steel plate fabricated to mount under the caliper. [Blake] cut up an old set of mountain bike brake levers to ...

Read on for our pick of the best disc brakes for your new gravel bike. A common discussion among mountain bikers is two-pot or four-pot brakes? Four-pot brakes have four pistons in each caliper ...

If you're a mountain biker who wants ... on both the front and rear brakes. Its inventor, Dr. Matt Miller, tells us that it could even be used on road bikes, if its software was adapted accordingly.

Normally, descents are my favorite part of mountain biking ... were interrupted with an infernal yowl of brake noise from one rider’s bike. Brakes make noise for any one of several reasons ...

Set against all the whips, scrubs and jumps associated with going fast on a mountain bike ... Four piston brakes are now commonplace on most high-end trail/enduro bikes and are a good upgrade ...

What are the most exciting developments and features of modern trail bikes? Which ones are establishing themselves, what’s useful, and what could we actually do without?