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They're Tektro. That "in practice its somewhat fiddly" bit sounds like where I am.

I'll go canvas my options with some other stores. Who knows? Maybe I'm being sold a line of guff here?

(and its a Merida 200 not a Movida. I was having a bad hair day)

I have Tektro on one bike. They work fine, but maintenance on them is more of a pain than Shimano. I'm probably going to swap them out for Shimano later, because the Shimano brakes on my road bike are so much easier to work with.

Your brakes use mineral oil, and you can use any kind of mineral oil you want in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VIuPiX3CA

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