![]() ![]() If you wanted reliable, powerful disc brakes, you needed to go hydraulic. That experience with the Giant further confirmed my belief that all mechanical disc brakes were crap. I think the final version of the review stated that the Giant was great, but that safety and common sense required that you actually remove the brakes from the bike and slap on a pair of Hayes before you ever brought the bike home. Shaken, he handed the bike back and wobbled away. The brakes did almost nothing to halt his momentum and he wound up hitting the chain link fence at the other end of the parking lot. I then put him on the bike-in our flat parking lot-and had him pedal to about 15 miles per hour. “Come on,” he pleaded, “these things can’t really be that bad! Isn’t there a way you can soften this up?” ![]() My publisher at the time came across a draft of the review we were giving the Giant and read our flaming review of the disc brakes, which soured an otherwise glowing review of the bike. We had a set that came spec’d aboard a Giant full suspension bike we were testing at BIKE and, man, they were nothing short of terrifying. I distinctly remember testing the first generation of cable-actuated disc brakes-back in 1998. WHERE: HOW MUCH: $120 (suggested retail price per wheel) ![]()
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