doctor-bond
Feature Bike
That is all.
Fkn hate V brakes
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Iwasgoodonce
Old School Grand Master
They speak very highly of you…
I find them easier to get more stopping power out of. You can get by with two hands. Cantilevers always seem to require a third.
I find them easier to get more stopping power out of. You can get by with two hands. Cantilevers always seem to require a third.
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
I vastly prefer vees for ease of installation, superior performance, and hand feel. Squeezing a v brake lever feels like squeezing a brake onto a rim. Squeezing a cantilever brake lever feels squishy like a tennis ball.
I am rather on the fence.
Well adjusted cantis work fine....especially the wide leg jobbies and they do look better.
V brakes, just work, no need to be some kind of "cantilever wisperer" to get good performance.
As for modulation....cantis easier, but if your not ham fisted and just grabbing at the brake, v's are fine too. Just need a bit more control to use.
Both stop the wheel and make it skid....so there's no more to be had or said really!
Well adjusted cantis work fine....especially the wide leg jobbies and they do look better.
V brakes, just work, no need to be some kind of "cantilever wisperer" to get good performance.
As for modulation....cantis easier, but if your not ham fisted and just grabbing at the brake, v's are fine too. Just need a bit more control to use.
Both stop the wheel and make it skid....so there's no more to be had or said really!
doctor-bond
Feature Bike
Yes: vees ganging up on me: straddle wire has a disproportionate effect on pad distance; tension adjuster screws too little (a boy sent in to do a man’s job); spacers on pad posts too crude to fine tune pad distance, and when you do finally knock them into alignment, ‘on/off’ grabbyness.
I took solace in caressing my sweet CR720s and moon units (self centering sweeties) and could hear the Vees whispering behind my back (“he’s such a cant…”)
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
Very Kantian of them.
(Kant's system of "transcendental idealism" emphasizes a distinction between what we can experience [observable world], and what we Kant [spiritual things like talking brakes behind us])
vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
Nice to see some philosophers on this forum. Immanuel Kant is one of my heroes, best thing to come out of Koenigsberg.
Iwasgoodonce
Old School Grand Master
I wind the lever barrel adjuster out. Hold the arms together having already adjusted the blocks hitting the rim flat. With the arms together with the blocks on the rim, pull the cable through and do up.
Now wind the barrel adjuster all the way back into the lever. If you have judged it right, you’ll have freed up just enough cable for everything to work. Plus of course, maximum barrel adjuster travel for the future.
Now wind the barrel adjuster all the way back into the lever. If you have judged it right, you’ll have freed up just enough cable for everything to work. Plus of course, maximum barrel adjuster travel for the future.
