I had some heavy-duty hydraulic brakes fade on me on my 2kW electric mountain bike. Scary times. I think the failure mode of cable-operated disk brakes might b

I had some heavy-duty hydraulic brakes fade on me on my 2kW electric mountain bike. Scary times. I think the failure mode of cable-operated disk brakes might be better (though I've since ditched the bike, so that's speculation).