Can I use this DOT4 car brake fluid? Formula brakes.
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2manyoranges
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Yep - horrible stuff. Glad they have brought out a mineral oil brake recently.
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I run the standard car super dot 4 in 2 pairs of hopes and one pair of Avids , run a garage so buy it by the 5l and always have it in stock , the super dot 4 stuff nowadays tends to have an equivalent or better boiling point than dot 5.1 and is a bit runnier for modern abs systems .
Do NOT mix with dot 5 as they are a different base and don't mix .
I run the standard car super dot 4 in 2 pairs of hopes and one pair of Avids , run a garage so buy it by the 5l and always have it in stock , the super dot 4 stuff nowadays tends to have an equivalent or better boiling point than dot 5.1 and is a bit runnier for modern abs systems .
Do NOT mix with dot 5 as they are a different base and don't mix .
dazdc5
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I use sintered as I usually get nearly 12 months riding out of a set (30>60 miles a week in shit usually) and my local terrain can be a bit gritty and sloppy at times , wears the rotors a lot faster than organic but 3 years or so per rotor and 12 months per pads is better than every time out for new pads like some of the cheap organics , the race matrix ones I found loud and a bit numb when cold , (in the hopes anyway, not tried em in the Avids) so I stick with sintered , just bed them in properly when new then never touch them till they are worn out n time to change.
Other people will have different views but I've never had major brake failure from tootling along towpath to trying to ride down Ben Nevis .
I use sintered as I usually get nearly 12 months riding out of a set (30>60 miles a week in shit usually) and my local terrain can be a bit gritty and sloppy at times , wears the rotors a lot faster than organic but 3 years or so per rotor and 12 months per pads is better than every time out for new pads like some of the cheap organics , the race matrix ones I found loud and a bit numb when cold , (in the hopes anyway, not tried em in the Avids) so I stick with sintered , just bed them in properly when new then never touch them till they are worn out n time to change.
Other people will have different views but I've never had major brake failure from tootling along towpath to trying to ride down Ben Nevis .
