WHY ARE SOOO MANY PEOPLE SOO ADIMANT ABOUT THE HFX-9 BEING A CRAPY BREAK? I LIVE MINE AND WOULD NEVER TRADE ANYTHING FOR THEM. ONCE THE KINKS ARE WORKED OUT THEY FEEL LIKE BUTTER.
Hayes
- Thread starter caputo1989
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Aweful, my friend won't ride DH until he replaces his. He's had these peices of **** fail on him in the middle of a DH run way too many times. He takes them to a shop and has them fix em up, they say they are fine, only to have them give out on him again. Dangerous.
dexterq20 said:
You crazy, boy.
i like my old mags
I have a set of comps and they are great untul I need to ride my bike
dude sorry this isnt a hobby. its deffinatly a sport (if bass fishing is a sport then mountain biking is deffinatly is a sport)
ohh and have a friend with 9's and he has to adjust them after every ride. rode with a guy sunday that had them on this pimpin bullit (dont ask me why). but he had to adjust them before we road and after we finished. if you ask me that is just plain annoing. especially when i have a 3 year old pair of mags and dont have to adjust the leaver pull at all. except for when i bought them. so 9's = **** mag's = the ****.
me89 said:
Uh, it's "deffinatly" [SIC] a hobby if you want it to be a hobby, and a sport if you want it to be a sport, and there's no great distiction between the two terms. Are we really going to introduce yet another way to categorize things, like the "What's the definition of 'freeride'?" threads?
Anyhow... The HFX-9's are budget brakes. Treat them as such. Buy Mags if you want high end brakes.
Given the sheer number of bikes that come stock with HFX-9's, combined with their budget nature, I'd say that they have a suprisingly low failure rate.
well if were catagorizing then why dont we call football, or baseball, or basketball a hobby. ohh well shouldnt have said anything but i classify it as a sport.
but yeh what he said 9's are budget brakes but the calipers are the same for the mags and the 9's the diff is in the lever. so you can just buy the leaver and keep the calipers and you will be all good. prob solved.
but yeh what he said 9's are budget brakes but the calipers are the same for the mags and the 9's the diff is in the lever. so you can just buy the leaver and keep the calipers and you will be all good. prob solved.
me89 said:
from dictionary.com
hobby: An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.
sport: 1a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
it's both, amigo.
But I have had ZERO problems with my HFX-9's and love them. And once I got them set up properly they worked like a charm. As with all hydro breaks you need to know what U R doing when setting them up, or they suck! no matter if they are cheepies or Hope 6's.
BTW most people that I work with in the shop say the mags are crap and the 9's are the best break that Hayes has ever made.
FYI: I work in a Hihgh $ specialty store.
FYI: I work in a Hihgh $ specialty store.
Less power and leaky. Weird MC setup. Hold too much air. And the 9's are much easier to maintain and I too agree.DßR said:
agree all you want. still doesn't make you (or them) right...caputo1989 said:
SORY.......that is our experiences :mumble:Smelly said:
That "sentence" is making my head spin.caputo1989 said: