Mark, I'm disinclined to dispute someones personal experience, but yours doesn't match mine. I wonder if your experience comes from set up. The neos want a hi straddle cable and the touring a very low one. This makes sense to me from my, admittedly limited, knowledge of Newtonian Physics. I have never used the touring cantis but have had a pair of neos on a pair of singles for many years. They can easily lift my rear wheel off the ground and stop my bike in short order.
In addition the Paul's site says this about the neos: These are very powerful brakes and have a tendency to over power thin tubed frames (in any material). For none- too-stout frames and forks we recommend our Touring Canti <http://www.paulcomp.com/touringcanti.html>. And this about the touring canti: The Touring Canti is a powerful cantilever brake with a similar design to the Neo-Retro <http://www.paulcomp.com/components/neoretro.html>, but with the arms angled upward. This gives the brake a much narrower profile without significantly reducing stopping power. I'm 71, and together the tandem team is 140, so we are not thrill seekers. We ride the hills of Vt unloaded quite successfully with theRacers on our tandem and tour in gentler terrain with the tandem fully loaded. I'm looking for increased tire clearance w/out any loss of power. Peace, Michael On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:15:22 AM UTC-4, Mark Reimer wrote: > > No way Neo Retro's on a tandem in my opinion. I have the neo-retros on my > CX bike and the touring canit's on my Atlantis. The touring canti's have > substantially more stopping power than the neo retros. However, they still > aren't anywhere near what I'd consider safe when descending a steep > hill/mountain with a heavy load, particularly in the rain. > > Mini motos would have tons more stopping power than the canti's, but > fender clearance would be the bit challenge as the cable is quite low. As > was mentioned, the moto-lite's would ensure you can use basically any tire > you want (with a fender) and have the most stopping power of any Paul > brake. Just need to have a long-pull brake lever. > > On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 8:16:37 AM UTC-5, Matthew J wrote: >> >> Mini-Motos have excellent stopping power, are easy to set up and look >> very good. I was not able to get the front brake to work over a fender >> however as the cable between the two sides is relatively low compared to >> other Mini-Motos. I did not want to use cantis so wound up using TRP >> mini-vs instead. >> > -- 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.
