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Are Juicy 3's worth buying?
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flag DavidMakalaster
Posted: May 2, 2008 at 14:33 Quote
Functionally Juicy 3s are identical to 7s.

Every Avid brake has a lousy factory bleed.
flag orangehitmanrider123
Posted: May 2, 2008 at 15:01 Quote
i woudnt go for the avids because me and my friends have had bad experience with them my avid 3 lost most of it's power in about 5 months my mates have had the same problem with there avid 5 and 7 and my mate with the juicy 5 has only had his avid for 3 months then lost most of its bite. Ive got a hayes 9 now there really good and reliable and not expensive. you should get some of them
flag creamsoda
Posted: May 2, 2008 at 20:19 Quote
^ you guys rub vaseline on your rotors much?
flag orangehitmanrider123
Posted: May 3, 2008 at 11:17 Quote
that would contaminate the brake
flag t-j-b
Posted: May 3, 2008 at 11:18 Quote
orangehitmanrider123 wrote:
that would contaminate the brake

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flag creamsoda
Posted: May 3, 2008 at 11:20 Quote
theoutpost wrote:
orangehitmanrider123 wrote:
that would contaminate the brake

..........

LOL
flag KOMA
Posted: May 3, 2008 at 11:31 Quote
im using juicy 3, i never had any probloms thit them since i bleedet them, and yuo can always put some KOOL STOP brake pads it realy helps alot
flag Tastel
Posted: Jul 23, 2008 at 23:56 Quote
quick question since this is the juicy 3 thread i guess
i do a lot of freeriding and i guess some really rough dh trails
my brakes seem to pull back farther, like the lever comes back all the way to the
handlebars after a really long run or after doing jumps and theres no stopping power
the brakes simply dont work when i get to the bottom
whats wrong with them?
flag howdsteeze
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Posted: Jul 23, 2008 at 23:57 Quote
Tastel wrote:
quick question since this is the juicy 3 thread i guess
i do a lot of freeriding and i guess some really rough dh trails
my brakes seem to pull back farther, like the lever comes back all the way to the
handlebars after a really long run or after doing jumps and theres no stopping power
the brakes simply dont work when i get to the bottom
whats wrong with them?

I had the same thing happen to me and I boiled my brake fluid
flag Tastel
Posted: Jul 23, 2008 at 23:59 Quote
yeah it seems everytime my bike gets shaken up the brakes lose power
maybe just shitty brakes?
flag howdsteeze
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Posted: Jul 24, 2008 at 0:00 Quote
Tastel wrote:
yeah it seems everytime my bike gets shaken up the brakes lose power
maybe just shitty brakes?

Thats a fair assumption.
flag nickcrawford7
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Posted: Jul 24, 2008 at 0:11 Quote
sometime when it gets hot enough an air bubble can get in to the line and you don't get the response that you want And it could last a while a a little bit it will eventually go away
flag naama
Posted: Jul 24, 2008 at 0:25 Quote
Tastel wrote:
yeah it seems everytime my bike gets shaken up the brakes lose power
maybe just shitty brakes?

Well that's funny, I rode juicy 3's for more than a year and I never had a single problem. I didn't notice fading or anything. After I bought Codes, I bolted the juicys onto my street bike, and they've worked now for nearly two years just fine. I haven't even needed to bleed them! Never. They are the most reliable brakes I've ever come across.
flag tommymay
Posted: Jul 24, 2008 at 4:55 Quote
Does anybody know what the Formula ORO K18 are like compared to the juicy 5 power and reliability wise?

 


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