Shimano's very first hydraulic disc brake offering was a four-piston system, but everything since those first Deore XT brakes has been two-piston. For 2009, though, Saint has gone back to a four-pot setup. Like the venerable XTs, the Saint calip ....Read More...
Had the front brake for a few months now, immense stopping power, good pad life, lots of adjustability,bleeding is a tad fiddly but not enough to fault the brake. Modulation is only ok but i have never found it a problem when out riding. Riding DH feels great with the saint, knowing that your brakes are 100% at the top of Fort William does make you feel more confident. I paired the brake up with Shimano's XT 203 disk rotor which is also flawless so far. I would deffinately recommend this brake and 5/5
personally when I first saw them I thought they were rather expensive well because they Are but they are definatly worth every penny the levers feel like your pulling feathers yet you have so much power and great modulation I would go for these one codes any day I had a go on a maates and they feel so much worse if you want my advice you should go for these any day
when i saw these thought compared with some of the others on the market it was relaively good price and when i got them on my bike i thought they were incredible the levers are so light to pull and the calier is so wide i gtget hem on my disc perfectly with no rub at all and i have mates with hope m4s and codes and all of those and they all say they would definatly buy these over the ones they have at the moment if they had to get new ones which say something and also the look awesomee and so far i havet found a down side to them