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Hello and welcome back to the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Casmer. Today I'm joined by Dario de Julio and Matt Beer. We're here to answer some reader questions and talk about everyone's favorite topic, breaks. Yay. I'm excited to hear you guys to talk about breaks some more. You know, reviews that never die. Just keep it going. Might as well.

Break talk only at this point. Yeah. For people that have been living under a rock, Matt and Dario put together a very comprehensive review of 10 brakes, 10 powerful breaks, kind of designed for enduro, downhill bikes, I think, you know, four piston, big stoppers, the ones you want for steep, gnarly terrain. And they reviewed them.

They did proper testing in the bike park, lots of laughs back and forth, switching brakes out on different bikes. They did some pseudoscience stuff, stopping a Honda fit with them, doing some

brake lever pulls with some water and kind of funny things, but things you can also get some numbers

and information out of. And the results are all up things you can also get some numbers and information out

of. And the results are all up. You can read all the articles. And the biggest takeaway that I took

from it is that commenters have very, very strong opinions about breaks. I think even more so than

suspension. This is like very particular. And I thought, yeah, I thought a lot about, last week we were, Adara and I were down to Sedona doing some testing of fields. But so I had a lot of time. I don't know why I had a lot of time, but I just thought about breaks for most of the week and why the comments are so maybe polarizing or not necessarily polarizing, but kind of as sure. Mean, mean, maybe?

There are some mean comments, but I thought about though, but brakes are the one thing that, I mean,

obviously they have a huge impact on how your bike feels and rides, but you also are more likely

to kind of mess around with them and maybe install them and switch your brake pads where

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