Suntour SE canti brakes Scott Pedersen selfenergizing model?

[belfastboy]

I am building an 1995 Ibis Mojo with the handjob guide for the rear brake. Want to use canti's and looking for something other than Shimano.
Came across a set of the Scott Pedersen SE Suntour canti's.

Anyone out there have any experience with them? I read the Sheldon Browne link and I have some reservations.

Should I use them with Vbrake levers or go full canti with some Pauls?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thx, bob

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[GT-Steve]

I run a set of these on my Orange AluO.

I absolutely love them. I've set them up very tight, for minimal brake lever movement (use levers for canti's, imo, not V-brake) and they're amazing.

I've heard reports that they're very on-off in operation, but I just run a slightly less grippy dia-compe pad, and it seems to cancel this attribute out, completely.

 

[belfastboy]

thanks

Thanks for this....I will jump in and buy the set and go with the Paul levers.

some online reviews made me wary regarding them being tooo grippy. But I won't be doing any real technical riding with this, mostly dike and light single track forest trails. Nothing too crazy. I wanted to try something dif than shimano and these are very cool looking.

 

[GT-Steve]

... and if you don't like them, you can always sell them on here..

 

[hamster]

I ran them on the front of my tourer (the CNC Pedersen ones, not Suntour) - it was very good with drop levers (DiaCompe 287, not the V version) and was one of the few brakes to pull up the tourer cleanly with a child trailer on steep hills.

So, highly recommended. I sold them on here when I finally managed to find some drop bar Maguras.

Don't use V levers, they pull too much cable and cannot apply enough force.

 

[Chickenball]

Ran them 20 years ago and loved them. Just put them on the SS and I realized how much I missed them! Definately on and off depending on how they are set up. You will definately have to play around with them to find what you like....and definately run levers that are canti specific.

 

[belfastboy]

bought em!

Thanks everyone for your help. I picked up a set on Ebay for $50. I was the only bidder. Picked up a set of Paul Levers, paid a lot - $100 but they are NOS and it gives me something dif other than the same old Shimano.
Now I get to find out if I like them.

bob

 

[hydorah]

presumably you are not in NI cheerfully buying stuff in $ (USD?)

Definitely the right choice not to try V levers with cantis you need to pull about twice as much cable with cantis, so a V lever travels a looong way and doesn't provide the same mechanical advantage because of where the cable is attached to the lever blade (nearer the pivot)

 

[hamster]

Other way round - v brakes pull more cable so have less tension and frictional losses.

 

[hydorah]

Other way round - v brakes pull more cable so have less tension and frictional losses.

Yes... Apologies! But in any event you'd have had rubbish brakes