Does anyone know if these are available in the US and if so who distributes them?
http://www.trpbrakes.com/t925.php
Thanks,
Ben
they look exactly like oval brakes. See them at trisports.
I think the ovals are clones of the Tektros and TRP is the new “high-end” division of Tektro (It stands for Tektro Racing Products. Apparently these calipers are substantially better than the Tektro/Oval versions.
It’d be nice to have that design actually work! I’ve heard the ovals don’t work well at all.
OMFG!! did you see their TT brake lever?? i can’t believe it! the SRAM TT brake is a rebadge!!
look carefully and I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. They’re both carbon but that’s about the only similarity I could see
there is a small difference in the shape of the carbon lever itself, but the overall design and internals are almost identical. Both use internal cable routing. (They must be the only 2 on the market right now to do this, apart from the Profile QS2) There is a big weight difference, probably because SRAM made their own updates in terms of lighter materials, so it’s not a complete rebadge, but i have to believe there would be serious copyright infringement if the 2 designs are independent. so one company would have had to pay for the right to copy at least part of the design. I’m guessing it’s the company that can afford to buy zipp that did the paying…
i want to clarify that i’m not bashing SRAM. They did a good job. They took a 150g/pair design and shaved it down to 100g/pair. Good on them!
look carefully and I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. They’re both carbon but that’s about the only similarity I could see
those are all carbon “wrapped”
TRP USA
TRP USA, 650 Castro Street,
Suite 120-200, Mountain View, CA 94041
Website: www.trpbrakes.com
E-mail: info@trpbrakes.com
USA distributor
Company: Quality Bicycle Products
e-mail: tektro@qbp.com
www.qbp.com
Toll free phone:1-888-988-8959
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Bump to see if anyone’s seen these 925 brakes available yet. QBP distributes TRP brakes, but I haven’t seen this particular model out yet.
check out the new TL720 tektro levers - claimed weight 86g
Those look like my FSA Vision brakes, but without the rattly rivet. Sweet.
The TRP (still Tektro) version of the TL720 is the RL970:
http://www.trpbrakes.com/rl970.php
With the carbon lever and Ti hardware, they claim the 970 weighs 138 grams per pair vs. 85.6 for the Tektro 720s. I’m guessing the weight given for the 720 is just for a single lever.
I’ve been looking at one of these brakes or the very similar Bontrager and SRAM designs to use with a Vision Tech alloy base bar. SRAM claims 100 grams/pair for their levers; Bonty claims 120 grams for the Race XXX Lite and 140 grams for the Aero levers with alloy blades.
All of these seem like they’re more usable than the Vision levers, which FSA claims are 70 grams/pair without cables.
Has anyone used/tested these enough to say which ones are the most aero and/or which ones are comfortable to use?
Nope for the pair.
**TL 720**
For use with caliper or canti brakes
Forged aluminum lever / Casted aluminum bracket
Expanding plug clamp style
Designed for 19-20.6mm ID extension bars
Return spring Standard
finish
Black bracket / Silver lever
Available in anodized colors Weight 85.6 grams / pair
I’ve tried these brakes both the TRP and the Oval versions. They, to me, were identical. Other than finish and badging.
I had reasonable, if not bad luck with both.
I had them intiially on a P3C on the backside of the WOlf fork. all kinds of issues, clearance of that flexible alloy noodle, not enough clearance between the arms and a 22mm front vittoria tubular, tough to manipulate pinch bolt for cable tension…and frankly that noodle hanging off the side really kills a lot of the aero benefit. that noodle would also smack the downtube if i were turning hard at low speeds… but the big killer was that the brake sat too low, so i couldnt get the pads on the brake surface. they’d hit below the brake surface on the carbon flat section. i took a file and elongated that slot so i could bring the stud arms higher (not exactly my favorite thing taking a file to an alloy brake arm)…and got it reasonably close, good enough for TT’s where you rarely brake, though it aggravated me when training since the pads hung a bit off the rim.
Then, decided to try to oval jetstream fork. really liked the fork, but that too had exactly the same issue with the pad height. supposedly they had a batch of forks that had the brake holes drilled at a slightly off angle. who knows. but i decided, after speaking to Jon Cobb last year, who was a huge help, to get a blackwell fork and find a different brake.
He felt that the behind the fork brakes did not exactly do anything aerodynamically, that in his tests, the air isnt any smoother and infact the air going from the fork to the downtube might even be disturbed by the brake arms in its path.
so i found a dura AX brakes set online.
i’ve tried the campy deltas and they are pretty sweet looking but i find them really harsh to setup, and they are uber heavy. the AX i likd a lot. very nice profile. sits all within the width of the fork and front end. true center pull so nothing hangs outside the width of the frame. they have really good braking power despite what some might say. zero modulation, i mean you’re cranking on them or off them, no feathering those things. but tehy grab hard.
the real issue is in brake pads. hard to find, and not exactly of the newest formulations dissipating the heat of carbon tubulars, so no idea if thats an issue for tri guys. i onnly use my carbon wheels in races and only do TT’s where maybe, at best i’m braking once at the turn around or a lite squeeze barrelling thru a few turns.
anyway, i think the 925 is a tough brake at best. i’d recommend avoiding it, and finding a delta or a dura ax on ebay.
some photos from : http://www.pelotoneast.com/showthread.php?p=7237#post7237
Kind of like this you mean?! (I gave up waiting):
yeah, those are sweet campys. Pete cummings races those and Richard Feldman (2006&2007 National Masters TT Champion, 2006 World Champion as well i believe) races those , i believe.
how do you like the braking on them?
mine were nearly impossible to get setup. i kept thinking i was missing a spring tension bolt or something, and then i ran into the dura ax, and on they went.
The bike is still waiting it’s maiden voyage but I’ll let you know - that’s a dura ace on the back so I’m satisfied from a safetly point of view but it already seems that you need a very strong pull to really apply “stopping power” (as oposed to “slowing power”).
Set up is definitely a nightmare - threading the cut cable through the tiny grip bolt is incredibly difficult and even when you achieve that you have to make sure the cable does not protrude more than 1-2mm or there’s no room for it in the bottom of the housing. Because I hate myself I also decided to try and couple that with nokon cables routed internlly therough the bars - the whole thing took at least 2 hours.
I emailed Tektro and TRP and received a response from the marketing director for TRP.
He says the weight of the TL720s should be per lever, and that the RL970 will fit the Visiontech alloy base bar.
Can anyone compare the RL970 and the SRAM or Bontrager levers?
I also wonder if the Vision lever weights shouldn’t be per lever.
Looks pretty clean, my Hooker brakes look similar
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