Cascade Components, based in the Pacific Northwest, are known for manufacturing aftermarket linkages for a slew of trail and enduro bikes with the aim of providing more options for riders to further tune their bikes to their liking.
Pinkbike's eagle-eyed Social Media Wizard spotted their not so subtle
Instagram story which shows a very nicely machined brake caliper quickly stopping a spinning wheel on a bike in a stand. Although the story will disappear after 24 hours, we captured it here to live on for speculation.
The caliper is obviously a four-piston and it appears to be made for a SRAM brake system. Our best guess, judging by its shape and the rotor it's paired with would be the G2 Guide which has, at times lacked some power although, on closer inspection, the pads seem to look more like those from SRAM's Code brake. It's notable that it appears to be using stock brake housing and fittings with the caliper itself being the only noticeable difference.
We reached out to Cascade Components and their response was:
| We can confirm that we are definitely working on a caliper. It's not a just for fun one-off. The speculation is mostly on track. It does use Code pads along with a bunch of other SRAM parts. We are more than familiar with breaking bikes mid-trip and needing to find parts quickly so making consumables easy to get ahold of is pretty important for us. This caliper will always be compatible with SRAM internals, although it may end up coming with some higher end bits namely to help with performance. This is still in development, of course, so we don't want to release too many details just yet. We've got some interesting concepts we are exploring and don't want to get hopes up in case they don't pan out.—Cascade Components |
From what we see, it looks promising!
In stock there, got mine a couple weeks ago
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The wandering bite points, howling and tendency to be overly grabby are all continuing issues I frequently read about Shimano here...but I don’t read much about SRAM brakes anymore.
Sticky pistons, time consuming bleed procedure, pad clearance, also have seen plenty that howl/gobble still, noises I don't have with shimano personally.
Also problems with bad lever seals from years ago, which aren't as much of a problem with modern ones, but as a shop mechanic, I can tell you that they're still out there, and I still have to do a fair amount of lever replacements. Most shops I know of do a hell of a lot more Sram brake warranties than Shimano.
As far as grabby brakes, IMO grab=power. Learn to modulate with your fingers, that grab will always be on tap. Vs Sram (more directed at guides and levels) you get all this modulation, and not enough power when you need it.
Full disclosure I prefer Sram over Shimano for everything except brakes. I hate shimano as a company far more than Sram, but shimano brakes are just that much better IMO
Edit - I use Galfer floating rotors.
However, I wouldn't gamble. Btw; Amazon doesn't deliver in Chile?
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Mine sure don't stay in the living room (unless you count the outdoors :tup I have... 4 pairs of 'em.
And I'm from trickstuff city, I should defend them whatever comes.
I have a set of 9 year old V4' s and a 12 year old set of m4 brakes that still work as good as the day I bought them.
I'm mainly a XC guy anyway and I'm very light (barely 140 lbs with kit). Those brakes would be akin to me slamming into a wall.
Trying to figure out what end goal would be with just working on the caliper end of things.
just 4 the record first i came on juice's than elexirs x9, than Guide RS and still on Guide's, also tried Code and Code v2..
I know hoe to service those and also serviced Shimano... sorry to say but Shimano brakes are horrible in design and servicing...the only plus is thay use mineral oil and people are very pre-convinced to use them instead...
yep different ppl like different food...
Pretty boring outlook you have.
Depends on the link. The stumpjumper one was only 20grams difference if I recall. I think the only on vital was replacing a carbon link, which definitely would be a larger difference
I hope they do a shimano version as I wouldn’t mind even more power for my zees.
Get Black, it does reduce the Stinky factor visually
pass
two piece calipers engineered smartly and put together with strong screws/bolts CAN be stronger/stiffer than onepiece designs.