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BEATDOWN

SHIMANO’S CURRENT GENERATION OF brakes got off to a stumbling start. Pretty much every XT and XTR lever we got our fingers on last year suffered from wildly inconsistent deadband. They’d go to the bar with one pull, and then engage at the top of the stroke with the next.

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