Weight savings, claimed at 25g per caliper, primarily come from using titanium hardware, better rotors and different brake pads that aluminum backed with a lightweight organic material, versus a standard metal backed sintered pad on the regular BB7 Road.Īt a minimum, you’re going to be installing the three parts above: Caliper (159g), mounting bolts with their “Tri-Align Caliper Positioning System” washers (16g) and the inline barrel adjuster (4g). Functionally, they’re the same as standard Road BB7 brakes, which I’ve had
Introduced last year (but spotted before hand at Eurobike), Avid’s BB7 SL replace some of the steel hardware with titanium to bring the weight down, and they get a nice dark metallic “Falcon Gray” finish to set them apart…and match up with the new Red group. In other words, perfect testing conditions. As fate would have it, they got here just in time for our NC cyclocross series finals, which was covered in snow, mud and crud. So, we requested a few things to test, and Avid’s new BB7 SL calipers were the first to arrive. Learn more.Īfter reviewing the Hayes CX5, people asked how they compared to some of the other mechanical disc brake options out there. Support us! BikeRumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article.
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