Hey Cam, can you do some in depth analysis at the min max of brake levers for Shimano? I hear the XTR lever are relatively cheap ($140.00) and much more durable with a fairly solid lever blade while the XT and SLX lever blades are more of a hollow taco design where the lever blade is closest to the lever body, much like sram. One of the reasons I turned away from sram brakes is that the lever blades melted away like hot butter in my hands (4 blades on one year all bent and trashed). I am on saints now but would XTR levers and SLX calipers or some sort of mix-match make sense?
March 12, 2021, 4:49 p.m. - Gage Wright
Hey Cam, can you do some in depth analysis at the min max of brake levers for Shimano? I hear the XTR lever are relatively cheap ($140.00) and much more durable with a fairly solid lever blade while the XT and SLX lever blades are more of a hollow taco design where the lever blade is closest to the lever body, much like sram. One of the reasons I turned away from sram brakes is that the lever blades melted away like hot butter in my hands (4 blades on one year all bent and trashed). I am on saints now but would XTR levers and SLX calipers or some sort of mix-match make sense?