SRAM Hydraulic brake images leaked
01.01.70
Images of SRAM’s upcoming hydraulic way lever, hydraulic rim brake, and road-specific hydraulic disc caliper have been leaked online by UK website Approach.cc.
The “spy shots” come from a brief PowerPoint award given to media at the 2012 SRAM Red launch in Mallorca last week. The images were put under block until the official launch later this year, a common practice. Thanks to the discharge, we are now free to detail the new components and provide images.
Hydraulic lever
SRAM entr product manager Bill Keith insists that the hydraulic lever shown in these images is not incontrovertible, but given the mid-summer release timeframe we can assume it is quite in the neighbourhood of.
The hydraulic lever is based off the new Red shift mechanism (so no hydraulic shifting, repentant), meaning no trim for the front shifter and the longer and more ergonomic brake and shift levers. It uses a new big wheel cylinder, completely redesigned around road and cyclocross use, and is designed to drudgery with both the new disc brake caliper and the new hydraulic rim brake.
Source: velonews.competitor.com