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Regular checks are the smartest hack to keeping safe. A simple squeeze test before each ride tells you if your brakes are ...

Don’t know your rotors from your pistons? Here’s everything you need to know about brakes in one place. For all the advances in suspension, frame building and wheel size, the brakes on your mountain ...

Brakes are one of the most important components on your mountain bike, with good-quality stoppers giving you the confidence to carry speed, knowing you’ll be able to slow down again. Like many ...

One of the hot topics for debate over the past few years has been road bike disc brakes. It was inevitable that the benefits of hydraulic discs brakes would eventually transition to road bikes. An ...

Ever since the first road bike with disc brakes was launched, the debate has raged in comment sections, forum posts, YouTube videos, and editorials on both sides of the aisle, and this year's Tour de ...

2023 was a turbulent year for the bike industry, but nothing sent cycling media into a greater feeding frenzy than when the men’s UK National Hill Climb Championships were won on a disc-brake equipped ...

For all the advances in suspension, frame building and wheel size, the brakes on your mountain bike are still perhaps the most important components. Why? Well, all the aforementioned things have ...