Just upgraded the brakes on my vado sl and wanted to share my experiences and errors. My stock tektro brakes were fine but i just couldn't find any brake pad replacements and i even ended up damaging my rotors from metal on metal contact as my brake pads had completed worn down. I tried to look for the official pads from Tektro themselves but couldn't find anyone who had it in stock and even tried to order 2 different off brands that i had 2 others tell me would work but didn't. Long story short i gave up and decided to upgrade to a pair of Shimano XT brakes from ebay only to find out at my local bike shop that my vado sl needed the post mount version and not the popular flat-mount... waited another 2 weeks for my post mount brakes to come in but unfortunately had to get SLX calipers as the XT ones were all out of stock.
Did a short test ride today and while the stock brakes were good enough these new XT ones makes 1 finger braking a dream and i definitely noticed more stopping power. One negative was the spacing between the brake clamp and my grips can no longer accommodate my motor controller which makes it harder to make adjustments to the power settings when riding
Did a short test ride today and while the stock brakes were good enough these new XT ones makes 1 finger braking a dream and i definitely noticed more stopping power. One negative was the spacing between the brake clamp and my grips can no longer accommodate my motor controller which makes it harder to make adjustments to the power settings when riding
