Trials+Magura=?

try thinking about it a little bit... when do you need a brake for
trials, and how would you use one? They are virtually useless for SIF
riding, which makes one useless for about 90% of trials riding.

A brake is a waste of weight on a trials uni, and it's merits for muni
stillget debated.

I don't have a brake on my trials uni, but I do on my muni. It doesn't
get in the way for trials riding on my muni, but doesn't help at all.
If I need to ride trials on my muni, the brake is just dead weight, not
something useful. Locking the wheel makes SIF hopping harder, and just
takes away control.

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yeah i thought that, i was just trying to get a few opinions on the
issue

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There was a discussion on here a while ago, i believe that incresed ease
in landing on sloped surfaces and bars was sited as the best reason for
trials brakes.

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I had a Summit with Magura's on it and the only advantage that I noticed
was that it made it easuer to mount the uni when on a skinny.😉

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A brake is a delicate piece of equipment, and not cheap to maintain.
Trials unis take a lot of abuse, so you're looking at potentially
damaging an expensive component over, and over, and over, for what
gain? Use in rare occasion?

What ever happened to using proper technique? Ryan Atkins does sick,
sick trials sans brakes... 'nuff said!

kington99 said:

i believe that incresed ease in landing on sloped surfaces and bars was
sited as the best reason for trials brakes.

I hadn't read the previous discussion, but I did a bit of hopping onto
sloped surfaces this weekend. The brake might make the initial landing
easier but unless one lands PERFECTLY they're going to need to make a
corrective hop after landing. The brake is going to make the
correction near impossible.

Furthermore, it would be quite hard to learn how to use a brake while
hopping... it's hard enough to modulate a brake just so whilst riding
down an irregular slope.

Methinks the whole brake debate was carried on by folks who don't have
much experience with trials, much experience with brakes, or both.

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