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@sooner518: Hope suggests to send them in for a service, but that may come too late as I need reliable brakes for an upcoming race. If I can return them, I will.

@HeatedRotor: my GR4s are quite bitchy. It takes some proper alpine descents to free the piston and get any pad clearance (after initial setup and even after changing pads). On the rear my first pads were worn completely unevenly, even though I did mobilisation with silicone grease during inital setup, as I hoped it would free the pistons and get some more pad clearance.

@MajorMantra: on their road and gravel bikes I would definitely not recommend to size up, these bikes are stretched out enough for unflexible amateurs as they are. Their M roadbikes are similar to other brands large or M/L. I‘m 181 and on a Medium Grizl, while my mountainbikes are always Large with around 480 reach.

so happy for Finn! But the finals start order just does not work. There's just less suspense than when riders were purely ranked by their quali times. And wasn't the cut to 30 riders made to improve race run coverage? I have a feeling we still only see half the run, while the broadcast itself is just as long. Not really an improvement for the fans...

@phops: even the big teams are rebuilding race bikes publicly in the pits at the beginning of race weekends. They surely are not fans of burning money, and I do not think that many race bikes are breaking these days. Otherwise there would be much more catastrophic failures during live streams/quali runs. When a bike breaks during a weekend, the pictures usually go around pretty quickly and it's not that often.

Me neither, I went through 3 FCB framesets to get one where the rear axle aligned with the hanger. Couldn't even thread it in with the first two.

@JesseMelamed: are you at Trans Madeira this fall? I could use somebody to yell at me so I don't come dead last...

@32x20: I tried to bleed the back brake that got filled with air while standing around unused and now the master cylinder is massively sucking in air during the bleed. I think the bleed port o-ring might be one of the issues but not all.. I contacted Formula directly last summer and they assured me not to worry about the bleed port o-ring. The front brake developed the same issue last june and that was the brake I waited all summer to be fixed, the rear brake did absolutely nothing during that time and just had one ride in october before dying on me today. After my disastrous experience with the Selva C I can just recommend to not waste time on Formula products. I just ordered Hope GR4s.

@bikingarni: mine are without speed lock. After standing around (unridden) over the winter with a fresh bleed I flipped the bike for a quick pad change and I lost the bite point completely. I could pump it back (took a while) but now the pistons are stuck and the brake a bit locked... are you doing a gravity bleed shimano-style? I think my brother bleeds his Cura 2 that way...

I can't confirm the feel issues described here (normal lever), mine has a normal action and return and a hard bite point, while the lever is pretty similar to old Avids (which had the best lever blade for me). But it is a pretty bitchy brake. No matter how I bleed them, I immediately get air in the system after only a few hard riding days with loosing the bite point in a vertical shuttle trailer or chairlift. Had one complete brake failure riding in Pila after one week of riding after the last bleed. Bite point returned a couple seconds later. Something internally broke on the last bleed, requiring a service to fix as there are no spare parts or any drawings available. Came back even more broken, so it took a few weeks out of my summer... Now after no riding since fall one of the pistons is stuck and the pistons won't return fully with new pads.