Bike brakes

The bike came with some components that were sub par. The brakes, the brake levers, and the brake hoods were almost to the point of not functioning. Whenever I would press on the brake levers, the bike would stop, but at a surprising slow rate of deceleration. I saw this as a major safety hazard.

In order to fix this problem I began surfing the web to find a solution to my braking problem. The solution that I found that I thought would be the best were Tektro cyclocross brake levers. These are a combination of mountain bike levers and lighter road levers. So I bought them. They were only like twenty dollars. I also bought a front and rear brake from origin 8. These are dual pivot brakes and they are much better than the stock single pivot brakes that came on the bike. I could now brake with ease and even skid and endo. It was like a dream.