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Hydraulic Brakes on LightCarbon LCR006-D
Maternicus:
I am planning an open mold carbon frame road bike build and am currently deciding between the LightCarbon LCR006-D, the LightCarbon LCR015-D, and the Dengfu R06. I have two questions.
1. Does anyone have any experience with these companies and/or frames that could help me make a final decision?
2. The rep from LightCarbon insists that none of their frames can accommodate hydraulic disc brakes and only mechanical disc brakes can be installed. I am finding this hard to believe and I think there might be an issue with translation here. I see in this picture, showing the cable routing on the LCR015-D, what appears to be a Shimano 101 hydraulic disc brake being installed on the frame. Has anyone installed hydraulic disc brakes on either of these frames?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
RDY:
Can't be true.
No-one is ever going to run mechanical discs on a high end road bikes. Either hydraulic or rim caliper / Vs.
They're only a thing on cheaper MTB and hybrid builds.
Maternicus:
Thanks RDY. This is exactly what I was thinking. The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole. From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...
YEEPYEEP:
--- Quote from: Maternicus on May 08, 2020, 10:36:18 AM ---Thanks RDY. This is exactly what I was thinking. The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole. From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...
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Any updates on the build? thinking of buying the light carbon frame.
Maternicus:
I did order the frame and, as I suspected, the hydraulic disc brakes work just fine. I put the frameset through several inspection points since there is so much talk about quality issues with Chinese carbon and it passed all of them. The only issue I could find is that the rear tire was very slightly off center by about 1mm but I can likely fix this with some minor modifications to the frame. I have put about 100 miles on the build thus far and I am very happy with the bike. I even ran an endoscope down the tubes to get a better look at the quality and it looks like they did a great job on the carbon layout. I would definitely recommend this company and I love this frame.
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