Ciamillo Gravitas Carbon Road Brakeset |  £469.99  | rrp £695.00

Ciamillo Gravitas Carbon Road Brakeset |  £469.99  | rrp £695.00

120 grams* of carbon exquisiteness! These brakes are made in the USA and are simply the ultimate in terms of weight verses performance and outright desirability. Arms are moulded carbon, hardware is either aluminium or titanium where appropriate. The calliper arms are very aerodynamic making these perfect for the new generation of aero road bikes as well as TT and triathlon bikes, or anyone that just wants the best brake available.

*complete caliper weight without brake pad.

The precise modulation and dynamic leveraging of the Ciamillo cam allows for tighter drafting and will literally change the way you race. There’s more to the story than Ciamillo’s ramping leverage – it puts leverage, rate, and travel where it’s needed. On a road bike, there’s a finite amount of cable pull and leverage coming from your lever at the bar. That road caliper designers do with available input is a balancing act. Along with the stiffness, strength, and geometry of materials this balancing act determines the performance of raod brakes.

There are three things to balance in caliper design – travel, rate, and leverage. High-leverage brakes usually suffer low travel distance and rate while high travel brakes usually suffer low leverage resulting in lack of braking power. Racing requires a considerable gap between the pad and rim in the event the wheel gets bumped from true. For this, adequate travel is a must. In addition, racers want a high rate of travel for tighter drafting with feather brake changes that are snappy with no delay between lightning fast reflexes and rim contact. High-leverage conventional brakes have neither the travel to close a large gap nor the rate to be highly responsive. Conventional designs give the calipers a balance of rate, travel, and leverage without maximizing any of these parameters.

All dual pivot and single pivot conventional brakes balance these design parameters with a set value for all three that is static – rate, travel, and leverage are constant. Unlike the static natures of conventional brakes, the Ciamillo cam allows for dynamic rate, travel, and leverage. This dynamic nature allows the input to be maximized for all three parameters at the proper time. It puts high-travel/low-leverage at the beginning of the pull – this allows for rapid response brake feathering needed for tight drafting. As the pull of the lever progresses the travel and rate slow and leverage ramps up. When the lever enters the range of 60-80% pull to the bar on a Ciamillo brake, the leverage is ramped to well over 2.5 to 1 and approaches 3.0 to 1 at full lock. The lower leverage and high-travel rate at the beginning of the pull allows for lightning fast response times when feathering and the high leverage generation later in the pull allows for powerful emergency braking. This gives the racer the confidence to draft tighter. Ciamillo brakes dynamically maximize rate, travel, and leverage where you need it and it will literally change the way you race.