![]() ![]() ![]() Despite being a little rusty having not needed to work on disc brakes for a good eight or nine years, the install was still fairly straightforward.Ī hose length trim and careful feeding through the internal routing were the biggest challenges – although it’s not a job for a home mechanic unless experienced and in possession of the correct tools. Installing the disc brakes took me back to my mountain biking days. This review will focus purely on the hydraulic disc aspects and the changes they bring over the rim brake version of the group. So, was it good enough to overcome my indifference with road bike disc brakes?įunctionally, eTap HRD works in exactly the same way as it did in our previous review, so I won’t repeat anything from that. With a disc brake review bike en route in late 2017, Monza Imports - local SRAM distributor - were keen to support the review and supplied an eTap HRD groupset to build the bike with. Regardless, when we reviewed the rim brake version of SRAM’s electronic eTap groupset back in August 2016 I said the groupset was good enough that the hydraulic disc brake version could finally be enough to convince me to switch to a disc brake setup. ![]() As a bit of a road bike traditionalist - particularly with regard to the aesthetics of rim brakes - the recent influx of disc brakes on road bikes has been hard to get comfortable with. From Cycle EXIF’s technical editor, Richard Gearing. ![]()
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