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SRAM employs 100 staffers in its Colorado R&D facility, where it tests everything from drivetrain durability to fork performance and much more

Races reliant on disc brakes found them lasting only a lap or two in the watery Verona mud

Tips for dialing in your Avid BB7 disc brakes for cyclocross

Fit for purpose

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn shows us how to cut the hose and bleed Avid disc brakes.

Make sure you can stop when you need to. Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to replace an Avid brake pad.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn demonstrates how to install and adjust Avid levers.

Singletrack.com's Lennard Zinn shows us how to cut and install new Avid Juicy brakes.

SRAM is out with redesigns of the company's Avid brakes — XX and XX World Cup to be exact.

Improvements have been added to last year's line, plus three new Elixir models.

LZ goes out and finds all you ever wanted to know about disc brake pads

When considering bike components, lower price can mean inferior performance. Singletrack.com's one-man wrecking crew Zach White says that's not necessarily the case with SRAM's new Avid Elixir 3 hydraulic disc brakes.

Avid's Elixir 3 and RockShox's Sektor 150mm fork are SRAM's newest offerings at attainable prices.

Now that SRAM's XX group is available to the masses on 2010 bikes and in aftermarket catalogues, the question is does it deliver? Singletrack.com's Technical Editor Zack Vestal gives you the low-down in a two-part XX review.

In his first weekly column for Singletrack.com, tech guru Lennard Zinn takes questions on disc brake performance and compatibility, the longevity of press-in bottom brackets and the availability of "special" Shimano tools/