With all these break-away/coupler bikes I do wonder about the brake lines. For disc brakes, would you rather have hydraulic brakes and connectors or Paul klampers/growtac equal style mechanical brakes with connectors?
I have more than one of both. Haven’t had a problem with either. My preferred fully mechanical disc brake is the dual-piston TRP Spyre - pretty smooth action. The Clampers are nice but quite heavy and only one brake pad moves. Haven’t used the growtac. The hybrid TRP brake, which is a cable-actuated hydraulic brake is just as heavy as the Clampers but you get a dual piston hydraulic caliper that’s almost as nice as a fully hydraulic brake. The first few times traveling with a coupled frame & fully hydraulic disc brakes I was concerned about possible leakage or getting air in the system. Haven’t had either (yet) with any of the various combinations of brake line quick-connects I have. . But I do carry a neutron portable brake bleeding kit just in case.
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