Re. Magura brake, do you mean the little t-25 reservoir plug? In my experience they’re easy to get a hold of.
I always find myself pushing back against the narrative of broken Magura levers. Certainly I’ve replaced some for customers who’ve broken them, but turning wrenches, most the folks who’ve broken one have broken examples of other brakes too.
I wish their premium master cylinders (MT7 vs. MT5) were differentiated by a bearing in the master cylinder. Both my pairs of Magura brake masters have epic lever blade slop whereas my Dominion A4 brakes are still as tight as day 1 after three years.
Same goes for any premium brake actually - Formula, Shimano, TRP, etc. this is something SRAM gets very right.
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I don’t have any beef with anyone who spends as much as they want on their mountain bike. 20K Ohlins equipped We Are One Arrival? Nice.
But I’m tired of the narrative that you “need” to ride some level of bike or some quiver of bikes to have fun mountain biking. It’s maybe linked to this entitlement folks have that they should be able to ride every feature of every trail every ride (it’s okay to walk your bike!) and pieces like this are my rebuttal.
I have at least one more interesting modern geometry hardtail on the way to review this year - impressively min-maxed right out of the box - and I’m as stoked to write about that as any bike in the works for me to write about this year.
June 5, 2023, 7:32 a.m. - Andrew Major
Re. Magura brake, do you mean the little t-25 reservoir plug? In my experience they’re easy to get a hold of. I always find myself pushing back against the narrative of broken Magura levers. Certainly I’ve replaced some for customers who’ve broken them, but turning wrenches, most the folks who’ve broken one have broken examples of other brakes too. I wish their premium master cylinders (MT7 vs. MT5) were differentiated by a bearing in the master cylinder. Both my pairs of Magura brake masters have epic lever blade slop whereas my Dominion A4 brakes are still as tight as day 1 after three years. Same goes for any premium brake actually - Formula, Shimano, TRP, etc. this is something SRAM gets very right. … I don’t have any beef with anyone who spends as much as they want on their mountain bike. 20K Ohlins equipped We Are One Arrival? Nice. But I’m tired of the narrative that you “need” to ride some level of bike or some quiver of bikes to have fun mountain biking. It’s maybe linked to this entitlement folks have that they should be able to ride every feature of every trail every ride (it’s okay to walk your bike!) and pieces like this are my rebuttal. I have at least one more interesting modern geometry hardtail on the way to review this year - impressively min-maxed right out of the box - and I’m as stoked to write about that as any bike in the works for me to write about this year.