slvoid

BTW: what I wonder if it'll look good with the black one on the front and the silver one on the back. I have a chance to buy a single zero gravity caliper off ebay.

blandin

OC Roadie

What pads did you end up getting, those look like Swissstops?

terry b

He does, with 10,000 year old bikes.

The silver ones say it all - "Hi, my name is Slvoid and these are my brakes."

ViperZ

I like the white/silver as it adds detail to the bike.

slvoid

Yeah, those are swiss stop yellow king's.
They look pretty neat with black calipers cause the yellow peeks out of the window. But I painted the back of the brake pads black so you have 2 black windows peeking out, which seems to look better.

onkey

another jealous comment by botto...

does it annoy you when people have better bikes than u?

btw, i have 3 serottta's and 3 if's. go ahead and tell me i paid to much....

Patriot

This was quite possibly one of the most worthy OCP questions I have seen in a long time.

Whichever you decide, they will ook great either way. However, since the bike is Ti (so it's not a weight weenie issue), I think those white ones seem to go a little better for some reason. Even though they black comes with Ti hardware.

slvoid

Perhaps I should hold back on my "Should I spend another $60,000 for a higher exhaust note on my $600,000 pagani?" poll...

slvoid

Good god.. how did I become involved in this OCP thing???

I painted the back of the yellow brake pads black and they fit a lot better now.

Coyote2

Instead of umpteem posts about which color calipers to run, couldn't you have been out riding your bike?

slvoid

Why the hell would I want to do that? Have you and botto been making out again?

Patriot

^^^ Definitely a classic closet case of OCP.

When one actually takes time to discuss actually replacing a set of Zero Gravity brakes to a differant color to match his bike, I can't think of many things more OCP than that.

slvoid

Well technically since I haven't used it in a big ride yet, the shop'll just swap it out for their black ZG's and I pay the cost difference.

botto 

hit too close to the bone, did i?

how deliciously nouveau riche of you to go out of your way to let us know that.

slvoid

Come on now, a little bit of jealously is nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm jealous of his IF's too.

2manybikes

I like the silver/gray better. It makes it easier to see the detail work and the milled out sections in the brakes. The round holes almost dissapear on the black brakes. They are nice looking brakes, make them easy to see, they still are not flashy. The black blends in with the black wheel and the black fork too much.

In any case don't decide until you have the black cages. That might change it a little. Ride the bike some more too, see if you really like single pivot brakes with the kind of leverage you get from brifters.

slvoid

Too late, I already put the ultegra calipers on my gf's bike and they grab like a mofo compared to the cheap alex double pivots she has. She says I can pry the ultegra's from her cold dead hands (after they lock up her wheels and she flies off the road).

2manybikes

Have you used the ZGs ?

blickblocks

Personally I love the matte black "stealth" look, but enough of your bike is silver/chrome to not make it matter.

slvoid

Yeah, I went out for a ride with them on my old aluminium rims with the koolstop black's, after I got it dialed in, they grab just as well as the ultegras. Obviously the new handle bar position allows me a little more leverage so that helped it to actually grab better than the ultegra calipers.

Serpico

what is twirled around the rear der cable, on the downtube

wtf

zephyr16

sounds like someone has more money than sense

slvoid

FD cable, cadence sensor, it looks neater that way.

slvoid

Oh yeah, $95/hr sure goes a long way around here.. dur.. gimme a break.