HEL Brake Lines - Stainless Steel Motorcycle Performance Brake Line And Brake Hose Kits

Welcome to HEL Performance stainless steel mountain bike brake lines - The home of high performance hose and fittings for mountain bikes on the internet. We have brought out the easiest and most effective way of transforming your mountain bike brake lines - in just one box. Most suppliers offer you a kit designed for one master cylinder and one caliper - but what happens if you want to change or upgrade your brake parts ? You have to go back to the store where you bought them and shell out more money for one additional part - Not with our kits.....

Our kits come with every possibility combination available - we include 2 metres of our dash 2 brake hose coated in either clear, neon blue, carbolook or neon red and include 10 fittings - enough to fit most brake components on the market. So if you have a hope master cylinder but a shimano disc the parts will be there - and if you want to upgrade any part of the system the fittings are in the box to do it - Trust HEL Performance to get it right first time. So for a brake hose which will fit most brake components you may have on your bike be sure to go to HEL - just choose the hose colour you require and everything else will be in the box to do the job - click here to buy them now or click the online shop link at the top of the page

Sharper more responsive braking combined with the exterior strength of stainless steel to endure the harshest of mountain biking environments mean that with HEL Performance will stop you from not enjoying yourself. HEL Performance only ever use Stainless Steel fittings on stainless steel hose with stainless steel bolts. So ride the best you can - Fit HEL Performance Brake Lines.

Despite what the salesman tells you - every modern mountain bike has compromises normally instigated by accountants rather than engineers. One such compromise is the materials used for the brake hoses on your mountain bike. Our brake lines use the finest materials - only Stainless Steel fittings on stainless steel hose AND we are the only manufacturer to offer kits with our 'self swage' concept - this means that the process we use to make all of our other hoses is the same idea used on our mountain bike lines.

Because we know that the best brake hose (and remember we are talking about the brakes here) is one which cannot be tampered with after it has been manufactured. This is why when we started making brake lines for motorcycles we broke the mould and were the FIRST manufacturer in the UK to offer swaged only brake hoses - and all of our competitors quickly followed our lead and replaced their reusable fittings with swaged or crimped fittings as well which kind of tells you something about reusable versus swaged / crimped fittings really....

But then some of them wanted in on the Mountain Bike scene as well so quickly did an about turn and started offering reusable fittings again....

Where as HEL Performance took a little bit more time, a little bit more design effort and came up with a system to allow you to manufacture a complete swaged brake hose for mountain bikes in your own garage with the aid of a vice. What you get is the smallest, lightest, most secure fitting available anywhere in the world...

Because it's a dangerous. It may be lighter than stainless BUT what these manufacturers don't tell you is that aluminium does not mix well with the stainless steel hose - in fact the aluminium WILL corrode if water is in contact with both materials - And lets face it, if you don't get muddy water on your mountain bike then you just aren't riding it are you ?

Electrolytic corrosion works on the same principles as a battery. Two metals, an anode and a cathode, are placed in fluid and an electrical reaction takes place which results in the softer metal being eroded due to electrolytic corrosion. Once these conditions are met, a "corrosion cell" is created, an electrical current will flow and metal will be consumed at the anode. The only way to remove this corrosion is by using metals of the same electromotive force (EMF). HEL Performance only ever use stainless steel or titanium fittings on stainless steel hose for our brake lines which keeps the EMF constant across the system eliminating electrolytic corrosion.

The resultant corrosion of using an aluminium fitting on stainless steel hose.

Electrolytic Corrosion Of
An Aluminium Fitting

This image shows the results of electrolytic corrosion of an aluminium fitting when connected to stainless steel hose. Corrosion has resulted in half of the fitting breaking away - if this line had been left on a bike which was charging downhill the results could have been fatal. Do not use aluminium fittings on your mountain bike.

For example, Aluminium has an EMF of +1.66 volts and stainless steel an EMF of -0.34 volts. When these two metals are in contact in the presence of a fluid (rain water etc) the electrolytic corrosion outlined above must take place resulting in the erosion of the anode (the positively charged metal in which in this case is aluminium). The greater the difference between the difference in the EMF's of the two metals the greater the level of corrosion.

In the case of an aluminium brake part this could lead to catastrophic results in the failure of the brake system. Again we reiterate that you should never use aluminium brake line fittings on any bike even for race use. The minimal weight saving obtained by using aluminium fittings is insignificant especially when viewed against the real dangers and risks involved when, and we mean when, the fitting corrodes.