Gear of the week: Juicy Seven Brakes
by: Rosa Florence
Posted on: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm by: Rosa Florence
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I went on my first mountain biking trip when I was in my early teens. My most prominent memory from that trip—aside from being awestruck by the California mountains—is the moment the brakes on the bike I borrowed from a friend failed to work and sent me riding into four other bikers. The brakes were supposedly new, but they obviously weren’t the best brakes that you could buy for a mountain bike.
I was invited by my friends again this year to go on a mountain biking vacation in California. The first thing I did was begin asking around about brakes. Nine out of the ten people I asked suggested that I purchase the new Juicy Seven brakes. Being the researcher that I am, I had to do my own research and find out what these brakes had to offer me that the others didn’t.
Juicy Seven: The best brakes out there
Juicy Seven brakes are extremely popular. Nearly every bike store that I walked into suggested the Juicy Seven because of their performance and good stopping power. There were other things that I needed with mountain biking brakes other than the power to stop. My mountain bike needed to be compatible with both left-handed and right-handed riders because we often switch bikes halfway through the trail to test out each other’s bikes. The Juicy Seven allowed for either a left-handed or right-handed person to use the bike with ease. They also offered easy alignment and good modulation. Bleeding the bikes was easy and I got to watch this through a demonstration that one of the bike store managers had displayed for me.
The Juicy Seven are much more desirable than other brakes because they offer the type of functions that you need for mountain stopping and they’re much lighter than most. I learned the hard way about the importance of having a bike that’s as light as possible without loosing the functions or performance that you need when mountain biking.
My California friend bought the new Juicy Seven brakes after they were available in stores around her home town. She paid about $160, which is the going price for the Juicy Seven. She said that they were well worth the money.
My next California mountain biking adventure is approaching. I can’t wait to try out the new Juicy Seven and see myself at the top of the mountain bike trail living it up without having to worry about running into anybody and making a fool of myself.
