Karl Brake MC

Steven31371 said:

Yeah the OEM is a 16mm piston, and in my experience doesn’t mate well with the 30mm piston Calipers. It also has a much longer pull ratio, combined it makes it feel spongy to me, but not in the way air in the brake lines does, it’s just too much lever travel and too much of a dead space on initial pull, so it feels like it needs much more rider input to get stopped than other options. I like to one or two finger the brakes, with close to zero dead spot on initial lever pull, and a short pull ratio altogether to reach maximum braking. The 17 RCS Corsa Corta worked great for me because I could adjust it to zero dead space on initial pull, and affectively run a 17mm piston with a 20 pull ratio. The $2000 deal is a 17mm with an 18 ratio. A bit less of a ratio than I’m use to, but as I play with it, it does feel like the machining makes a noticeable difference, as the whole pull of the lever has a much more linear feel than the RCS Corsa Corta, so presumably as I use it more a bit more finesse is possible with it.

The real question is, at my riding level is it a big enough improvement to justify the $1800 price gap lol….if I had a budget to work within absolutely NOT. But over time as I continually improve I suspect I’ll appreciate the EVO GP billet radial MC more and more.

I’m not sorry I bought it so far.

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