Road Brakes

Road bike brakes available in all market ranges and for all bike ranges on the market.

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Road bike brakes available in all market ranges and for all bike ranges on the market.

Road bike brakes

Road bike brakes are responsible for controlling the speed of the bicycle, by activating the brakes you can reduce or completely stop the bicycle.

Types of road brakes

The currently most standardized road brake system is the caliper type. V-Brake, Cantilever or disc brakes are more common on touring, urban or mountain bikes respectively, although disc brakes are becoming more common on road bikes.

Caliper brakes for road bike - Caliper

Caliper or caliper brakes, is the most common system among road bikes, they are the ones that are attached to the central section just above the bicycle wheel. This braking system consists of the fact that, when we operate the brake lever, the calipers move inwards towards the rim, causing both brake shoes to rub against the braking band of the wheel, reducing its speed or stopping it completely. There are many types of caliper brakes, although the most common are the dual pivot type.

Road Bike Disc Brakes

Road bike disc brakes are becoming more and more common. It consists of a brake disc that is mounted on a specific hub in the bicycle wheel and a brake caliper that is housed in the fork or frame of the bicycle. This type of brakes can be cable or hydraulic, the latter being the ones with the greatest braking power. In addition, the disc brakes have excellent wet braking.

Road bike disc brake

The road bike disc brake is becoming more widespread among road bike brands thanks to its versatility and notable improvement in braking power, although many road bikes currently still mount shimano brake calipers or sram brake calipers and still do not They have made the leap to road bike disc brakes. It is necessary to change the road brake levers to be able to install a road bicycle disc brake, since shimano brake calipers or sram brake calipers are not compatible with a road bicycle disc brake, other types of road brake levers being necessary. . A road bike disc brake has two road bike disc brake calipers, one on the road bike fork and one on the road bike rear chainstays. Normally, road bike disc brakes are hydraulic and work through an oil circuit, although some road bike models use mechanical road bike disc brakes that go by cable, although this type of road bike disc brake is less used and only on some low-end road bike models.

Shimano brake bridges

The Shimano brake calipers are the other part, along with the road brake levers, that make up the road brakes. There are many models of Shimano brake calipers, from the most basic ranges such as Shimano Tiagra brake calipers to high-end models such as shimano Dura ace brake calipers or shimano ultegra brake calipers. Some models of shimano brake bridges have a different grip on the bicycle frame, since road bikes with aero-type frames mount shimano brake bridges to the chainstay, which are housed in the rear chainstays of the frame but in the lower part of the frame, leaving these shimano brake bridges practically invisible and camouflaged with the frame.

Sram brake calipers

Sram brake bridges are the ones used by road bikes that mount sram groups in their components. The best known models of sram brake calipers would be the rival sram brake calipers more focused on mid-range or gravel, the sram force brake calipers that would be the upper mid-range on road bikes or the sram red brake calipers that are the high end.

road brake levers

The road brake levers are different from those of mountain bikes, since these road brake levers are vertical levers and the change buttons are included in the road brake levers, with which these road brake levers are totally different. to their mountain bike counterparts. There are many models and brands of road brake levers from brands such as Shimano, SRAM or Campagnolo.

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