Typical, medium-duty, hydraulic brake system with front discs (red circuit) and rear drums (green circuit). Boost, or assist (blue circuit), is provided by an engine-driven pump, although the power ...

If you’re a bike geek and aren’t turned off by disc brakes, Cyclocross Magazine has a ton of cyclocross product news in store for you this week. At NAHBS 2013, we got our first up-close-and-personal ...

Why would anyone choose cable-actuated disc brakes in 2025? It’s a fair question. There’s a reason why hydraulic disc brakes have become the industry standard. Purely from a performance standpoint, ...

One of the top upgrades we're asked questions about every month is braking. How to get the car to stop better? What brake kit do I use? Should I go four-wheel-disc or just upgrade the front? And so on ...

Stopping your vehicle seems easy enough: Press the pedal, and you come to a halt. But that simple action actually sets a complex system in motion. All passenger vehicles sold here today have disc ...

The Mining Safety and Health Administration offers some pretty sobering statistics and investigations. Take one recent incident, for example. A 50-year-old haul truck operator was fatally injured ...

Disc brakes are now in the majority on road bike builds, so here are the best mechanical and hydraulic options around When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

On the heels of their RT8 TT hydraulic rim brake for time trial bikes, Magura this week released a converter for standard road bikes. Without a finalized name yet, it mounts to the steerer tube and is ...

What do you do when the bike industry doesn’t make components to suit your specific needs and desires? If you’re design engineer and pneumatics specialist Paul Townsend, you make your own, hacking ...