Best Canti's?

[Russell]

This is a bad thread for me ( tongue in cheek! ). I'm thinking of going back to cantis to save a bit of weight and improve the feel of the brakes.
What's light?

You're an enigma. 18 stone and you fancy using cantis?

You'd better know how to set them up perfectly!


FWIW I always got great braking with M900 cantis.

 

[cchris2lou]

on a budget ( ish ) : M900

otherwise

Campagnolo record OR
Grafton speedcontroller .

 

[Coleman]

Scott Mathouser brake blocks make a massive difference I find, that and taking time to set them up properly with the right cable angles, canti spacing and pad contact on the rim.

Still rubbish compared to discs though but wondering whether you will stop is much more fun than knowing

 

[legrandefromage]

you are all weird - cantis are all in the set up regardless of bling factor.

 

[feetabix]

The variables are stifness of bosses and cable angles....ano and fancy milling just cover what is essentially a lever.....it's all In the set up....

 

[WD Pro]

Low profile v wide ... ? :?

WD

 

[Xesh]

I like the Pedersons fitted to my Avanti. Not the cnc version but the later ones made by Tektro. Suntour licensed the design from them but thought that SE brakes on the front were a bit too dangerous, hence why you can only get Suntour SEs for the rear.

 

[drcarlos]

As I am changing the levers and shifters today on the Sorcerer for good old DX 2 fingers and thumbies I will have a god a re-setting up the cantis. I think I will try a lower pad position angled slightly upwards as that is how it is on the XC SE's

Carl.

 

[Russell]

you are all weird - cantis are all in the set up regardless of bling factor.

Yes you're quite right, the design of the lever and the quality of the materials used has no bearing whatsoever on the brakes operation.

 

[Agency_Scum]

1. Were low profile cantis sh1te?

2. Did shimano introduce low profile cantilevers...

a because of the " extra clearance " ( their words! ) they gave us through the woods; regardless that just behind one was an even wider transmission device called " A LEG. "

b. to make their V brakes introduced 2 years later feel REALLY GOOD!






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