Mountain Bike Brake Test - Temperature Testing. How Hot is Hot?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2021
- In this video we test three popular brakes and share results from lots of days testing them on some of the steepest descents we could find. Our goal was to see just how hot brakes get during a long downhill and how big of a difference there is between brands.
TRP DHR Evo brakes with thick 203mm x 2.3mm thick rotors
Shimano XT brakes with 203mm IceTech Freezah rotors
SRAM Code RSC brakes with 200mm rotors
While we were hoping to see some major differences in temperatures, the field was a bit closer than we thought, however the power, lever feel and consistency were the biggest notable differences.
If you ever wanted to know how how your brakes get, give this video a watch. It was a bit more challenging than expected, took us several tries and locations to make, but we're happy with what we learned, even if it was different than what we set out to originally test.
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At 280 pounds and riding fairly steep trails in Idaho I love my TRP's!!!
Had Code rsc with 220/200 and Hope v4 with 225/200mm Rotors. switched to Trp dh-r evo with 220-203 Rotors. These trp Brakes are the best i Ever Had. Insane Power and no fading. Even After 1000m vertical drop they performed perfekt. I love them, especialy the Gold Color 😅
Are you adjusting the emmisivity setting on that IR gun? Black is waaayyy different that silver You may be off by like 30% or more just in the measurement alone
out of all brakes i've tested, TRP is the best one for me, this modulation and power is just amazing and they are durable as hell.
Fantastic work done in this one! - - Test Results:
Presented by TRP.... Am I the only one that saw this? I've never ridden TRP so I cant comment. I have Code RSC and I had go up to 220/203 rotors. I was smoking the rotors on anything smaller. I went with the Magura E-Bike rotors. I feel that any set of brakes will do better with 220/203 rotors. Try big rotors before dropping a lot of cash on new brakes.
very cool test. unique, haven't seen this angle before, which is a bit of an achievement in the mtb space!
I love TRP's, I even pick a set for my pure XC bike, the thing is that even the weight it's similar to the 2 piston XTR's, but they're way more powerful and better feeling. Great video guys.
Some pad and rotor compounds perform better at higher temps. After i switched from Shimano, Sram and now to TRP rotors (sram code rsc with metallic pads), the performance improvement was instantly noticeable on long descents. I would assume the TRP brakes with TRP rotors would be that much better. But frankly, i love the ease of service on the Sram's, the Bleeding Edge gives a perfect bleed every single time. Something i could never get with Shimano
I found my way from SRAM to Magura to TRP. TRP is easy to work on reliable and strong in all categories of modulation, power, lack of brake fade. I actually think I could have gotten away with Slate EVO and still been ecstatic with the performance. Cool trails, I was trying to figure out where you were and could not!
Would love to see the difference in heat with different pad materials, finned or not, ice tech or full steel rotors, and rotor size. Great video though!
Rotor thickness makes a difference too do you think you can compare SRAM & Shimano's 1.8mm thick rotors to the thicker SRAM & Magura 2.0 thick & those 2.3(?) thick from TRP please?
Thanks for this, I’ve got a Sight VLT coming in October (hopefully) that I was going to swap the Codes out for Shimano but now the weight of the bike, I’m gunna give the TRPs a hard look.
That was great. I hear good things about hayes dominions. Hayes vs trp shootout ?
Great brake comparison. What speed sensor/bolt setup did you run on the turbo levo trp setup?
I run Sram codes and have done for 3 years now but run Magura 220mm MDR-P disc front and rear and carbone lorraine pads VXR pads and perform better than Sram sintered which are so good on my Specialized Kenovo and they run cool all summer and are great trail braking and great feed back.
I’ve ridden code rsc and Shimano Saints. I switched over to TRP Evo’s and prefer them over both shimano and the codes. It would have been cool to test the magura’s and hopes also. Great video guys!
At 575 degrees Fahrenheit, steel turns blue. At 800 degrees Fahrenheit, steel turns grey. Above 800 degrees Fahrenheit, steel produces incandescent colors. Between 1000 degrees Fahrenheit and 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, steel turns an increasingly brighter shade of red
I was asking myself that this morning while I was riding some downhill in the Santa Monica mountains.
Im 280lb on a levo and the magura mt7 with 220 mdrp rotors have been hands down the best brakes ive had to slow my big ass down , tl were stock, then had code r, shimano 4 piston xt and now the mt7 🙌