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Cane Creek starts eeBrake production a month early, calipers shipping now

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eeCycleworks direct mount eeBrakes

At the end of August, Cane Creek announced they’d be taking over production of Craig Edwards’ eeBrake calipers. The design is among the lightest and most powerful rim brake on the market, but as a boutique operation, the number rolling out of Edwards’ shop was rather limited. Now, Cane Creek has announced that they’re up and running a full month early, with calipers shipping out now. Retail is $315 each (per wheel) and can be had in regular and direct mount versions with various color logo badges on either. They’re available direct through Cane Creek’s website or through their retail distribution network.
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Tyler Benedict is the Founder of Bikerumor.com, where he’s been writing about the latest bikes, components, and cycling technology for almost two decades. Prior to that, Tyler launched and built multiple sports nutrition brands and consumer goods companies, mostly as an excuse to travel and ride in new places.

Based in North Carolina, Tyler also loves the Vanlife & family adventure travel and is always on the lookout for the next shiny new part and off-grid adventure.

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Greg
Greg
8 years ago

Best aftermarket brake out there

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Birdman
Birdman
8 years ago

I want this more than I want a disc brake road bike!

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Kernel Flickitov
Kernel Flickitov
8 years ago
Reply to  Birdman

Before you go start slapping yourselves on the back, eep in mind you’re paying over six hundred bones for brakes that roast rims quick as… Yeah, uh, no thank you sir.

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Allan
Allan
8 years ago
Reply to  Kernel Flickitov

“brakes that roast rims”.

I’ve never roasted any wheels with rim brakes. I even still have my 1994 Trek Singletrack 930 with the original wheels (rim brakes). Used to be my only bike, ridden every day, went through college with it, thrashed it in any kind of weather, conditions, dirt, mud anything. I’d love to see all the roasted rims that these brakes seem to eat up. Not saying it can’t happen, but I’ve never had to replace a set of wheels because the brake track was worn out, no matter what kind of bike it was, or how it was used. And frankly, road bike culture is a throw-away/upgrade culture anyway. No “respectable” roadie keeps their wheels for any length of time now. Especially considering how everyone is brainwashed to buy the next big thing. Brake-track rims will long outlive the vast majority of their users.

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Alex
Alex
8 years ago
Reply to  Allan

Allan, I’ve bust an aluminium rim before (Velocity, massive bang as it burst), not sure where you live in the world but i’ve found that rims really do wear here in the UK, winter road grit is nasty. However, the expensive rims on my disk road bike are pretty much as good as the day i bought them a few years ago…they don’t need to be a throw away item.

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pnw_rider
pnw_rider
8 years ago
Reply to  Alex

I think your problem is velocity, rather than rim brakes. rims made by manufacturers with metallurgical expertise tend to last. I’ve really only ever heard of velocity rims wearing out with a spectacular bang. That said, disc brakes are great for maritime temperate climate rainy season riding (e.g. UK, PNW)

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Brian
Brian
8 years ago

+1 for Birdman

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Eric
Eric
8 years ago

I hope they continue Craig’s excellent customer service.

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Eyal
Eyal
8 years ago

I have one bike with a pair of these, and a new sram disc brakes bike. The disc brakes are superior. eeBrakes and their bike are going on eBay soon.

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ginsu
ginsu
8 years ago

Do roadies not understand that the mechanical advantage of hydraulic disc brakes is a level of magnitude superior to any cable operated system.

Can you imagine your car using brake cables? Your motorcycle?

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Veganpotter
Veganpotter
8 years ago
Reply to  ginsu

If your car and body weighted 200 lbs and you had four tires with the total contact patch of two road bike tires, rim brakes would be great. Also, I’ve ridden plenty of disc road bikes(I’ve worked in shops for a while) and I’d only pick them over rim brakes in the rain.

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Kernel Flickitov
Kernel Flickitov
8 years ago
Reply to  Veganpotter

The law of diminishing returns come into play when you have a rim brake this powerful and no end in sight for wheel rebuilds. Better brakes (disc) don’t disintegrate rims.

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Robin
Robin
8 years ago
Reply to  ginsu

Disc brakes are superior in terms of modulation, consistency, foul weather braking, braking effort, and heat management. Alas, many people do own and will own for quite a while to come bikes that don’t have disc brakes as an option. That’s just a reality. Some of those people want the benefits of something like eeBrakes brakes. My bike, a bike I’ve had for a number of years won’t accept disc brakes. I have to use rim brakes. I’ve love to have eeBrakes. They’re a lot cheaper than buying a new frame and disc brakes.

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Tim
Tim
8 years ago
Reply to  ginsu

“Mechanical advantage” is a very specific term from basic physics/ engineering. “Mechanical advantage” simply means “leverage”.
-Mechanical advantage in cable brakes works like a seesaw on the playground. If one end of the seesaw is three times longer than the other side, then the kid sitting on the longer side can weigh three times as much as the kid on the short side and still balance her/ him.
-Mechanical advantage in hydraulic brakes comes from a difference in size of the master cylinder (the one in the brake lever) and the slave cylinder (the one at the brake). If you have a small master cylinder, say 10mm in diameter, and a big slave cylinder, say 30mm in diameter, your squeeze of say 10lbs at the lever would turn into 30lbs of squeeze at the brake pads.
-As you can say, it’s no trouble to build two braking systems, one cable-operated, the other hydraulic, which both have the same mechanical advantage (leverage) as each other. Reality is messy, though. Cables stretch slightly when pulled, there is some friction between the cable and its housing (especially if dirt has entered the housing or if the slick coating of the cable is degraded), and cable housing can bulge and squirm under heavy braking loads. All of this means less force reaches the brake pads. Cables also are totally unaffected by cold or heat, unlike hydro fluid. Cable-operated brakes also don’t self adjust for wear, unlike hydraulic ones. This can be an issue if you are riding long downhill runs and/ or in the rain: in just one ride, you will need to re-adjust your brakes for pad wear.
These reasons, and not “mechanical advantage”, are the real reasons hydraulic systems are superior in most conditions for most riders.

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DJ
DJ
8 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Your seesaw analogy is backwards.

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Tim
Tim
8 years ago
Reply to  DJ

You’re right. My bad. Hopefully anyone who read it got the drift.

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JaJa
JaJa
8 years ago
Reply to  Tim

No I switched off after about three lines in.

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RobertW
RobertW
8 years ago
Reply to  Tim

10mm/30mm diameters would actually be a mechanical advantage ratio of 1:9.

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Tyler Durden
Tyler Durden
8 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Tim – you got to square the radius since you’re moving a fluid volume. Your example would create a 9 fold mechanical advantage.

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Allan
Allan
8 years ago
Reply to  ginsu

Ludicrous. You’re comparing a car or even a motorcycle (and that weight) to a freaking road bike? I don’t understand this slobbering over disc brakes. Seriously, how many people are going to buy into every bit of hype over the latest gotta-have trendy thing? Disc brakes now, soon it will be 30+mm wide rims (you heard it here first kids) for the road. After the manufacturers dupe everyone into buying another brand new bike with disc brakes, they’ll be sure to spec their fork and frame clearances just below the newest uber fat road bike wheels, which will soon be force fed to us as the latest and greatest BS. It’s gotten to be over the top the past few years with the latest fads which require a new bike purchase to be in the cool kids crowd.

Go ahead, buy your hydro disc road bike, all it tells me is your handling and braking skills are subpar and noobish.

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Robin
Robin
8 years ago
Reply to  Allan

…..and get off my lawn!

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grind'r
grind'r
8 years ago
Reply to  ginsu

Disc brake bikes are 2+ pounds heavier than their rim equivalents.

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Birdman
Birdman
8 years ago

I went through a disc brake phase, but now got rid of most of my disc bikes except the do-it-all. Need the stopping power with a child carrier behind me. However, my main bike is now back to rim brake. Hard to argue with the weight saving with ZERO hills around me.

These brakes are such a status symbol though. Nothing wrong with that, it just catches my eyes from a mile away everytime there are eeBrakes near me.

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Stendhal
Stendhal
8 years ago

Excellent! I have a new bike and was waiting for these brakes to become available again. I commend Craig the company owner for partnering with Cane Creek to help bring his by-all-accounts-excellent product to more eager bikers.

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Andrew
Andrew
8 years ago

These have to be the worst looking brakes I have ever seen.

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Patrik Jonsson
Patrik Jonsson
8 years ago

Coolest brake in the world!

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Janus
Janus
8 years ago

I’ve been using a pair of these on my road bike for over three years. Total loaded weight on my bike is around 200 lbs, and I constantly ride up/down grades over 15%. I’ve never needed anything more to stop me. Discs are great, but also, whatever dude. Two weeks ago, I was about to get t-boned by a car at the bottom of a descent going over 40 mph. I had no problem stopping at all.

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Marin
Marin
8 years ago

How is this any better than an any good shimano road brake such as 105-DA?

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DominicBruysPorter (@BruysPorter)
DominicBruysPorter (@BruysPorter)
8 years ago
Reply to  Marin

’bout half the weight, more power, better modulation, and more even pad contact because the two arms move in the same arc. The core of th3e brake is larger, lighter and stiffer, the arms the same. One casual benefit is that the cable enters just about centered over the caliper which reduces somewhat the effect of stiff housing on the adjustment.

For road bikes, the advantages of discs only really apply in crap weather and will necessarily be a proportionally heavier option for the foreseeable future. The weight difference was not so significant on MTB and conditions are typically worse. I have to change brake pads often enough on a commuter that i’m seriously considering discs, but for a MTB where five rides meant new pads, it’s a no-brainer.

And considering the number of non-disc road bikes already out there is in the millions, having a legitimate upgrade without frame or fork modifications just makes sense, especially considering how much longer a road bike can be kept running even when used for its intended purpose regularly.

Side note: why is there a “discs/tubeless or gtfo” contingent of roadies on BR at all? Like, how is it a thing? Cool your jets

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Joey B
Joey B
8 years ago

I’ve been using eeBrakes for several months now. I came off of Shimano Dura Ace brakes after many years. The eeBrakes are superior in every way, power, modulation, weight, and adjustment. The cost will keep them out of the hands of most cyclists. The best rim brake available period.

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tyler
tyler
8 years ago

best brakes on the road.

discs suck for road unless youre in the fog on carbon rims all the time. heavy bulky draggy (mechanical and aero). no thanks.

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Tim
Tim
8 years ago

Yay. I have two sets…
Love them to bits.
Never rode disc brakes. These stop my bike, if not me, come what may. Even on Lightweight Standard C and Ventoux wheels.
And I love the way they look, but to each their own.

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Aaron
Aaron
8 years ago

Anyone know if/when QBP will be carrying these?

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Jim
Jim
7 years ago

Those who still cherish rim brakes have never experienced the thrill of melting rim glue on a tubular while descending a long, winding hill. It does create a really tight pucker . . .

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