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Shimano CUES BR-U8000 Front Brake

What the checker says1will not fit

Run variant by variant through the mountain bike builder’s own engine. Every sentence below is the checker’s, unedited. Nothing here says this part fits your bike; it says what it does and does not fit among the parts we hold.

Checked against 6082 verified mountain bike parts in this catalog. 6077 produced no finding of any kind.

Will not fit

  • Will not fiterror · Front RotorFront rotor too big for the caliper as recorded here: 223mm is larger than 220mm, the largest rotor size this catalog records for the Shimano CUES BR-U8000 caliper. The caliper maker's own rotor chart is the place to check. On 5 of the 177 verified rotors in this catalog.
The checker compares the dimensions listed in what we check, and what we don’t. “No conflicts found” means no conflict among those dimensions — not a guarantee that a build works. Errors mean it won’t fit; warnings mean it works but check; infos are notes.
Shimano CUES BR-U8000
Photo: Shimano

$85.00 MSRP·107 g

What the maker states

Mount
Post mount caliper
Pistons
2-piston caliper
Maximum rotor
Rotor up to 220 mm
The rest of what the maker states5 not published

5 further fields the checker looks for are not published by Shimano, so we leave them blank rather than estimate them, and those 5 checks stay silent on this front brake. They are excludes rotor, maximum rotor evidence, design rotor thickness, design rotor thickness maximum and lever accepts. Each is recorded as “not stated by the maker (not checked)”.

Source: the maker’s page. Last checked 2026-08-15.

Checked against

The checker ran this model against every verified part below that it has a slot for, the same way it checks a build in the builder. What follows is the verdict it actually produced for that specific pairing — not a recommendation, and not a guarantee any of these parts fits your own bike.

6 of 1862 counterparts with a page of their own that the checker actually probed this model against, in alphabetical order by brand and model — never by price, popularity or the verdict itself.

Where this sits

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