keep the codes lol i have 2007 avid codes and love them... air bubbles? i havnt heard that or noticed it. and honestly hayes is absolute shit. i have used the strokers and used to own al caminos and hated both of them especially the al caminos they suck.
avid codes are awesome dh brakes, some of the best, but you do need 2 re-blead them every month or 2, ya win some ya lose some, cant get the best outtah everything, so if you want awesome brakes you gottah maintain them. DO NOT GET THE NEW HAYES BRAKES, there dump an there hayes which says it all
iv been running codes on my bike for a whole season and have used them on 3 days straight of long decents and they have been never bled or inpected, and they work better now than before
The codes are the best brake i've ever rode on. There is so much control and they hold up. I have punished mine through good weather and bad and they still feel like the day i bought them. When I put them on, my bike felt like a whole new ride. These brakes are the reason i haven't bought a new bike.
i know the stuff about bleeding and air is a bunch of bs... codes probably require less bleeding than anything else ive used... i cut the lines when i got them, and didnt bleed them straight away... i ended up bleeding them because i wanted the levers to have a short reach without much movement before the pad contact... i thought it might need to be bled, but no, it was just that i was at the end of the reach adjustment limit.
after riding them for a few weeks, and then bleeding them, i went up and did a 50 mile xc ride, but in the parking lot, i pulled the lever and it lost all resistance and pulled to the bar... i had caught the o-ring on the bleed screw on the caliper in the threads... i thought i wouldnt have a front brake, but after putting the oring back in place and pumping the brake a few times, it came back to life... good as new after loosing a quarter syringe-full of dot fluid...
i think most of the negative stuff about these brakes is just bs, the only complaint i have is that the pad contact dials are on backwards, so the arrow that says "in" actually moves the pads out...
Its hard to get comparable answers here without all the bias... I 've been riding Hayes for years and years and never had 1 problem... I admit they are not the strongest, but they are extremely reliable...
why does everyone like these brakes? they're like a hand brake for lightweight riders. i can't modulate them at all.
thats not what i find at all, im ~130lbs, so not heavy by any means, not even 150 in full armor and backpack... i find them to modulate amazingly well, just use 1-finger, like i said before, if you get scared and grab a handful of brake, you will go over the bars, its as simple as that. I learned that in two days of riding, and its been smooth sailing ever since...