Sounds like maybe you’re having a friction issue with your Magura brakes as opposed to a power issue? Maybe I’m reading too much into it but this does come up a lot when talking brakes.
I’d trying cleaning your rotors and sanding the glaze off your pads and then bedding your Magura brakes in again.
One thing I’ll say for Shimano is their sintered pads are pretty fool proof to setup versus other compounds.
I’ll be talking about this in an upcoming brake review using semi-metallic pads.
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Non-Shimano, and actually Shimano non-Servo Wave brakes as well, don’t have that initial rotor ‘CLAP’ but you should feel the Maguras ramp up the harder you pull the lever.
Magura doesn’t use a sintered metal pad, so they don’t have that initial bite and actually apparently for many courses Hayes DH racers are choosing not to run sintered pads as well. So it’s tricky to do a perfect comparison between brake systems when the compounds are different. But once I was used to that more sophisticated leverage curve even after an adjustment period I don’t love riding Shimano brakes, and that’s increasingly the norm amongst folks I talk to.
Aug. 7, 2023, 8:32 a.m. - Andrew Major
Sounds like maybe you’re having a friction issue with your Magura brakes as opposed to a power issue? Maybe I’m reading too much into it but this does come up a lot when talking brakes. I’d trying cleaning your rotors and sanding the glaze off your pads and then bedding your Magura brakes in again. One thing I’ll say for Shimano is their sintered pads are pretty fool proof to setup versus other compounds. I’ll be talking about this in an upcoming brake review using semi-metallic pads. ——— Non-Shimano, and actually Shimano non-Servo Wave brakes as well, don’t have that initial rotor ‘CLAP’ but you should feel the Maguras ramp up the harder you pull the lever. Magura doesn’t use a sintered metal pad, so they don’t have that initial bite and actually apparently for many courses Hayes DH racers are choosing not to run sintered pads as well. So it’s tricky to do a perfect comparison between brake systems when the compounds are different. But once I was used to that more sophisticated leverage curve even after an adjustment period I don’t love riding Shimano brakes, and that’s increasingly the norm amongst folks I talk to.