Are your pads well adjusted? Is your rotor worn out? Those brakes are not the best but they’re not supposed to be as bad as you describe them.
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I’ve had Spyres for years and I find them to be fantastic. Dead simple to set up, powerful AF and modulate well. I’m not sure why people struggle with them so much. I admit that the stock pads aren’t great and replacing them with Shimano resin pads will improve them. Just like with any mechanical disc brake, “compressionless” housing is necessary.
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Hybrid mech/hyrdro are great. I have Juintech F1s and they’re great. Easily lock up your wheels should the need arise, so good stopping power.
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First, make sure your levers are compatible (short pull or long pull), then make sure your cables and housing is OK. Check your pads for wear and replace if worn and check the rotors for proper thickness and replace if below min spec. If that’s all ok, make sure your pads are properly adjusted. There’s usually a bolt on the inboard side of the caliper you can use to adjust where the pad sits in relation to the rotor, which needs doing periodically as the pad wears.
If all that checks out you’ve likely got contaminated pads and/or rotors. You may be able to get away with sanding down the pads a little with emery cloth and cleaning everything thoroughly with brake cleaner. Or just replace everything if they are worn or gross looking. (make sure you don’t spray any lube or WD40 etc. anywhere near your brakes in the future)
Then you’ll need to properly re-bed the pads by doing a bunch of accelerations and hard braking (but not to a stop).
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I have the same brakes. They work well enough for me. What kind of brake cable housing are you using? I use Jagwire Compressionless, it came with the bike. I’ve heard it helps with mechanical brakes.
If you want better cable actuated brakes, I’ve hard good stuff about the TRP HY/RD, Paul Klampers ($$$), or Growtac Equals. But all those options are pretty spendy so it’s worth investigating if you just have a setup issue.
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I replaced my mech brakes with TRP HY/RD and they’re pretty great. Little bit heavy, but a great (and cheap / easy) way to improve your braking without replacing everything
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what brake levers/groupset are you running?
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Are your pads well adjusted? Is your rotor worn out? Those brakes are not the best but they’re not supposed to be as bad as you describe them.
I’ve had Spyres for years and I find them to be fantastic. Dead simple to set up, powerful AF and modulate well. I’m not sure why people struggle with them so much. I admit that the stock pads aren’t great and replacing them with Shimano resin pads will improve them. Just like with any mechanical disc brake, “compressionless” housing is necessary.
TRP!
Hybrid mech/hyrdro are great. I have Juintech F1s and they’re great. Easily lock up your wheels should the need arise, so good stopping power.
First, make sure your levers are compatible (short pull or long pull), then make sure your cables and housing is OK. Check your pads for wear and replace if worn and check the rotors for proper thickness and replace if below min spec. If that’s all ok, make sure your pads are properly adjusted. There’s usually a bolt on the inboard side of the caliper you can use to adjust where the pad sits in relation to the rotor, which needs doing periodically as the pad wears.
If all that checks out you’ve likely got contaminated pads and/or rotors. You may be able to get away with sanding down the pads a little with emery cloth and cleaning everything thoroughly with brake cleaner. Or just replace everything if they are worn or gross looking. (make sure you don’t spray any lube or WD40 etc. anywhere near your brakes in the future)
Then you’ll need to properly re-bed the pads by doing a bunch of accelerations and hard braking (but not to a stop).
I have the same brakes. They work well enough for me. What kind of brake cable housing are you using? I use Jagwire Compressionless, it came with the bike. I’ve heard it helps with mechanical brakes.
If you want better cable actuated brakes, I’ve hard good stuff about the TRP HY/RD, Paul Klampers ($$$), or Growtac Equals. But all those options are pretty spendy so it’s worth investigating if you just have a setup issue.
I replaced my mech brakes with TRP HY/RD and they’re pretty great. Little bit heavy, but a great (and cheap / easy) way to improve your braking without replacing everything
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