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Old 01-30-23, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by tomato coupe
You completely misrepresented what he posted.
Don’t think so. First, not all modern brakes are Shimano. Second, with regard to the implying that mechanicals are death traps, elcruxio did bring up the nightmare scenario of frozen brakes. If that isn’t fear mongering, I don’t know what is.

The rest of the post was him trying to convince us that somehow cables are difficult to work on compared to hydraulics. Utter hogwash!
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