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Shinging noise can come about when there is play in the wheel bearings too, check your cup and cones if you've got them, it's more likely that than the play in a 9mm QR or some light weight forks flexing under your incredibly immense power.
Double check the alignment of the caliber by putting a sheet of white paper below it (for ease of seeing ) and lining it up carefully by eye, not by pulling the brakes and tightening the bolts, that's internet guff and works about as well as my pants.
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that sounds like a compatibility issue between the levers and the calipers. Don't avid suggest a certain pull ratio or even just list a handful of other manufacturers brakes that will work with their calipers? (Question, not rhetorical) I fitted brakes with the wrong leverage ratio once, like squeezing a brick and no power to slow me down.
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I've never had a problem with Avids and I've owned both cable and hydro (on mtbs) cable needs setting up properly but is a piece of piss once you've got your head round how they work. People seem to hate Avid hydro on mtbs but my elixir and juicys have all been just fine.
Anyway, get shimano brakes.
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@umop3pisdn
You say you're uninspired by your Mtb, but it's a rigid 29er, acknowledged as the world's most boring ride. Yes get something else, but don't ditch mtb-img based on that bike.