In reply to LastBoyScout:
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>> You'll also need the rotors, which will push it slightly over your budget, in which case SLX will be more attractive:
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> Not necessarily. I bought a set of XT's to replace a gunged-up (through my own laziness) Hayes HFX's but I kept the Hayes rotors and so far it's been fine. It was just a bit more pernickety gettign the back caliper aligned properly.
Luddite thought of the week: the old Richey canti's on my first mountain bike still stop me just as well as my megabucks hydraulic discs, in the dry at least! V brakes? never heard tell of 'em!