Budget disc brakes

[Greenbot35]

Hi all

My 2012 cannondales avid juicy 3s are done, olives, pistons and seals are £50 so need some new brakes. Can anyone recommend a good budget set that will be comparable to the avids.

I'm currently looking at shimano slx or alivio are these anygood or should I be looking elsewhere?

[gradeA]

Clarks M2 are available for £40 for a full set including discs and are basically a Shimano clone.

[shouldbworking]

Slx are in a different league to juicy / Clarks / alivio. At 50 each end on crc at the moment I'd choose them.

If that's too much to spend alivio are wooden but effective stoppers

[Usget]

I’ve had Clarks M2 before and wasn’t happy with feel or stopping power. Swapped them for XT and the difference was like night and day

[gradeA]

Hardly surprising when XT brakes are £100 an end without rotors and the M2s are £40 all-in!

OP did ask for budget options comparable to Juicy 3s, which the M2 are.

[Usget]

Spose so, typical PH budget creep!!

I hadn't realised the price had gone up so much on XT brakes though - I think I got them for less than £100 for both. Definitely wouldn't have paid £100 an end. This was a few years ago.

[C722]

I have ridden a bike with the Clark's brakes, I really didn't rate them, they felt spongy and lacked power.

I recently replaced my Juicy Three's with a set of Shimano SLX's, I'd thoroughly recommend them.

[Greenbot35]

Thanks for the reply's, I've gone for the Alivio's for £40. As I now know that any fault pretty no spares are available for anything I will just replace the kit.

The Juicy 3's are only budget so these hopefully will match or surpass them.