On Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 6:32:25 PM UTC+2, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > "The lower the straddle cable, the more mechanical advantage - goes for > every cantilever brake you will come across." > > True in the mathematical sense. Misleading in the practical sense. Wide, > low cantilevers like CR720s and M.A.F.A.C. and others don't change much at > all with straddle height. Run them high or run them low, they feel about > the same.
Well, I thought that I had already pointed that out, and didn't want to repeat my self: "Wide profiles canti brakes have very low mechanical advantage, and it doesn't vary much regarding to (useful) yoke heights." https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/5R-gKjhClH8/7G9a0SthaBgJ This was a response to how the geometry worked, to avoid the stated confusion - in general yoke height has the largest effect on brake force and feel for cantilever brakes, and it's good to be aware of this simple rule. Johan Larsson, Sweden > The place where straddle height would make a difference with CR720 is > where the straddle is inside the tire....which causes other problems. 😉 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
