We are proud to carry Ciamillo Cycling Zero Gravity Brakes, including their Zero G, Negative G, and Gravitas Brakes.
Ciamillo Cycling Products are handmade in CNC Workshop in Nicholson, Georgia, USA. Click here to read more about them: Ciamillo
Jake and Chris both have been running the Zero Gravity Zero G Brakes for a bit and have nothing but high praise.
Offering various models, you have the choice of Stainless Steal or Titanium hardware to save those few extra grams. Often compared to Shimano Dura Ace brakes, they provide equal or better stopping power, weigh less as well as cost less; especially when factoring in the cost of Dura Ace 7900 brake levers which are required. The red brakes pictured above are the highly coveted, rare Red Devil Special Edition Zero G brakes, only 666 of them ever made. Want something unique for yourself? Ciamillo offers fully custom Zero G Brakes.
More from Ciamillo about what gives their brakes great power and feel.
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 iterally change the way you race.
