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Yeah it sucks....and these measures aren't even chocolate coated or resemble anything nice at all.

Dave, nice philosophical take there, employing the categorical imperative is what lacks (maybe) most in an ever more egocentrical world. I actually hope that this disruptive event will lead to more socialising, more altruism, more thinking about the effects my own actions have on others (butterfly effect and on and on).

At the same time, as a guy living with two small children and wife in a two bedroom flat without a garden going outside every day is the only way to stay sane. It's funny though how daily risk assessment has become more normality now than neccessity.

DUDE! I hear you. Two kids almost 3 and still 4 @home now all the time. I do not have more time than usual... 

new indoor skill/hobby: endless patience

Nice piece! 

While I'm still headed to the office daily I've just gone to replace the shitty Guides on my bike with Dominion A4s (because of your teardown and review). Yes, you made me buy these!

Next up: replace the standard axles in the mallet e's with the long spindles.

What do you use to lubricate your axles? Would you use the same on the spindles for the pedals? What do you put on the threads?

Sorry, I'm  new to screwing these things up on my bike all by myself :D

you are asking the wrong questions:

It's Cura4 or Dominion A4 :D

as the NF site containing shipping information seems broken.. do you ship to europe/germany? @travis

with that money you could buy an actual motorbike! And have proper fun :D

Thanks for pushing me over there. Somehow I already had the spreadsheet with brake data from that thread in my google-docs.

Anyway.. I've added a bit of data I gathered from mtb-news forum and the Hayes Support: The Dominion A4 comes out almost as strong (on paper) as the Direttissima which (I guess) is regarded one of the strongest brakes, only bettered by Trickstuffs own Maxima Brake.

The Cura 4 is a bit less powerful... Anyway.. when looking at the overall system leverage (hydraulic and mechanic) your input would be multiplied about 39 times with the Direttissima and A4, 36 times with the Cura 4. I'm really looking forward to finding out if these paper-facts will translate into your comparison.

What sets the Dominion apart from the other brakes and explains the light lever feel is: The A4 generates by far the highest hydraulic leverage whereas Trickstuff and Formula achieve their braking power by using a relatively high mechanic leverage. That could explain the super light action and good modulation.

BTW: V4 comes out really week: Your input will only be multiplied almost 30 times.

Code is not much better (due to rather small braking calipers, factor 32.7

Combine the V4 caliber with a Code OR Dominion Lever and you'd put that brake on par with the pure A4 or Direttissima brake.

I don't know if anybody is interested in this... but I am :D

I mean, in the end I might try and pair some CODE RSC levers with Hope V4 calipers... but who knows.

Did you ever measure things while tearing down? What's the calipers diameter, can you give information about the hydraulic leverage generated with the lever? What's the size of the master cylinder?

The rest is trickery physics.. but calculatable :D

Damn I really dig these brakes. I'd like to really like the clumsy looks though. That housing is just plain ugly.

So now I will wait for your Cura 4 review. I really need to decide how to upgrade over those quickly overchallenged Guide-Rs mounted on my bike. Bringing 100kg and too much speed to every corner the guides need to go before it's drying up :D

yeah, what Bagheera said.

I like to spin between 80-90 rpm while seated and have developed a habit to stand up when the cadence drops. Maybe it's my knee-issues that force me to do this, but I really shift around a LOT while climbing.

drop 15 kilos and work on my FTP --- up it to 270-300 Watts (3 Watts per kg bodyweight) (driven by numbers, I am :-D )

Climb my nearest mountain (1000m altitude change) in under 75 minutes (currently 100minutes)

be able to do 10 Pullups, 50 Pushups, run 10km under 50minutes