Excellent braking power with 1-finger HC lever: the Magura MT8 Pro disc brake set

An increased transmission ratio will give you a reassuring feeling of safety in every competition situation. The new 1-finger HC lever blades modulate the enormous braking power as desired.

Carbotecture SL master cylinders and forged one-piece brake callipers made of polished aluminium give the MT8 a look of sophisticated quality. The equally sophisticated Carbotecture SL masters and the aluminum levers provide ultimate reliability and performance at a low weight.

Features – MT8 Pro set

• Optimal heat resistance
• Ergonomic, 1-finger aluminum HC lever
• Forged one-piece 2-piston aluminum brake caliper
• Toolless reach adjust
• magnetiXchange brake pistons for easy brake pad replacement
• Compatible with all MAGURA Storm, Storm HC and Storm SL / SL.2 discs
• Made in Germany
• Designed and engineered in Germany
• Model year 2019

Product Features

• Use: MTB Cross Country (XC), All Mountain
• Technical features: Full hydraulic dual piston floating calipers
• Pad wear adjustment: Automatic
• Brake pads: Organic 7.4 Performance (replaces 7.1), 7.2 Endurance
• Hose fitting caliper: RHR – Rotateable hose routing
• Brake hose: MAGURA disc tube easily shortened
• Transmission medium: MAGURA Royal Blood mineral oil
• Hydraulic system: Open, with expansion chamber
• Intern. standard mounting (IS): Yes, adaptor
• EBT (Easy Bleed Technology): Yes
• Feel-Safety-Ergonomic: Yes
• Dual Docking for trigger shifters: Yes
• Reach adjust: Yes (toolless)
• BAT (bite point adjuster): No
• magnetiXchange: Yes
• OPD (caliper in one-piece design): Yes
• Postmount mounting (PM): Yes, direct mount
• 2-Piece Lever Clamp: Yes
• Material fitting bolts: Aluminum
• Material master/lever: Carbotecture SL (masters), aluminum (levers)
• Material caliper: Aluminum (chrome finish)
• Hose length: 2200mm each (shortable)
• Rotor recommendation: Storm SL.2 140/160/180/203

Color

• Black/chrome (master and lever)
• Chrome/black (caliper)

Weight

• Front: 225g; rear: 225g (manufacturer information)

What is Carbotecture?
In the sensitive motorcycle and bicycle industries, MAGURA stands for the highest possible quality, solid reliability and mature components from its in-house production in Germany. In developing special materials and processes such as Carbotecture® and Carbolay®, we have realized designs and constructions that no other manufacturer can implement. We have also established an extremely effective quality assurance system at our Hülben and Hengen production and assembly sites near the original factory in Bad Urach. MAGURA brakes are light, very stable and function reliably for many years – and we realize these features with several plastics that we develop ourselves. However, Carbotecture is definitely not just a “plastic” – it is so much more!

We see ourselves as the architects of our materials – and the term Carbotecture® is a combination of the terms carbon and architecture. Here is a brief explanation of how we create our basic Carbotecture® material: First of all, a mixture of high-tech polymers and carbon or glass fibres is converted into a plastic granulate by means of several complex processes. During the processing from the granulate to the finished component, the carbon fibres are then optimally aligned to match future stress requirements. This “Carboflow” process can create any desired shape from the granulate during an injection moulding process. Carbotecture® offers major advantages compared to classic lightweight aluminium – for example, it’s 50% lighter, but it possesses the same tensile and breaking strength! Thanks to our highly developed machines and processes, Carbotecture® is indeed a dream material, from which smooth surfaces can be created in almost any complex shape – and this is also how we make our rigid yet lightweight brake masters. BMW also relies on the special properties of Carbotecture® for its motorcycles – the clutch master of the BMW GS is also made of this material, for instance.

We increase the resistance of our Carbotecture SL® material by integrating medium-length carbon fibres into the polyamides instead of short fibres – and this also reduces the weight of the material. The brake masters of our award-winning MT disc brake series are made of Carbotecture® and Carbotecture SL®.

Yet another of our materials is Carbolay®. It is produced in a fully automated procedure, during which a textile process is used to position the carbon fibres according to load. The fibres are then automatically impregnated with resin in a mould. This process enables us to produce Carbolay® lever blades in an attractive and ergonomically optimized form – and the blades also achieve perfect finger force transmission thanks to their high degree of rigidity and low weights.