Are these brakes good???

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Brenner5
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Post Wed May 18, 2005 8:53 pm

seen these brakes going on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 93359&rd=1

just wondering if anyone has a similar set or are there better ones i can get??

whats meant by 'vented', the ones in the link are not i suppose??
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Post Wed May 18, 2005 11:36 pm

Those discs are probably budget discs like the ones you can get from GSF/ECP, and have been machined, good price if you're not too bothered about performance..but they are part of the braking system at the end of the day, I would go for the zimmerman x-drilled ones from GSF, almost the same price.

Vented discs have what look like 2 discs sandwiched together with vents in bewteen them, where as solid dicsc are well..solid!
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Post Thu May 19, 2005 5:19 pm

X-drilled discs are prone to cracking, I'd go for just grooved discs. ATE power discs are decent and around Ԛ£20-25 a corner from Eurocarparts
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