Ok, my tri bike is taking a bit of a break until the season winds back up. Until then, I’m getting my road bike back up and running. It’s an '03 Trek 5500.
I’ve cannibalized parts from it to my tri bike (Cervelo P2C) over time, most recently the brakes… and rather than switch them back, I was going to buy some new calipers. Anyone have any experience with tekro? I’m not looking for anything super fancy or lightweight… although the rest of the bike is dura ace.
Tektro blow…that is just what it is.
I have some cheap dual-pivot Tektros on my Jan Ullrich road bike frankenbuild, they work absolutely fine.
But even Shimano Sora dual-pivot brakes are fine, and mega cheap. Code BR-3300
Tektro blow…that is just what it is.
Why? What makes them blow?
Brad
Tektro are perfectly fine. I have a few pairs on different bikes and they have always worked as good as DA 7800 calipers I have on other bikes and they work better than my ZGs. I have two sets of the higher end dual pivot alum calipers and one set of the lower end dual pivot alum calipers (not sure about the exact model) and several of my friends have been using them also. I’ve seen 0 problems over the past few years me and my buddies have been using them. I do live in a hilly area with short steep hills so good brakes are helpful. I can’t comment how they would do coming down long sustained mtns and such.
Haven’t used Tektro. But, with all the sales right now, why go with a lower end component? Force and Ultegra can be bought for less than $150 per pair, if that fits your budget.
Haven’t used Tektro. But, with all the sales right now, why go with a lower end component? Force and Ultegra can be bought for less than $150 per pair, if that fits your budget.
I could, but if I can get some brakes for even less than that… why not go with something that works equally well?
The Tektro brakes work but to say they work as well as Dura Ace or Ultegra would simply be false. There is no safety concern with the Tektro’s performance but the Shimano product feels noticeably better.
Tektro’s pads blow, the mechanicals are just fine, so add the cost of immediately replacing the pads with something that will keep you from dieing to your cost calculations. For me it was the difference between blowing through the stop sign at the base of a hill and comfortably stopping.
Haven’t used Tektro. But, with all the sales right now, why go with a lower end component? Force and Ultegra can be bought for less than $150 per pair, if that fits your budget.
Sora dual-pivot calipers are about €15 a pair shipped last time I looked.
If your P2C was a stock build, I’d guess that Tektro actually manufactured the house-brand Cervelo calipers, so if those were good enough…
You can pick up a pair of Rival calipers for less than $90. That seems like a pretty safe way to go.
i think they work (stop) better than ZG’s.
Yeah, I took the Dura Ace brakes from my 5500 and put them on my P2C. I’ll see what the stock brakes off my P2C do… they got bent in a slo-mo crash that I had at a stop sign with another rider.