On 01/10/2017 05:36 PM, Garth wrote:
Yes, canti brakes are just fine with me too. I can see why some may have a difficult time setting them up, since they are so adjustable. This adjustability to some is a curse, to others wonderful . It's like a lump of clay to one is a mess while to another a masterpiece. The web is a such a funny place with all these "reviews", not unlike a "customer service" help line, which often turn into a place to vent dissatisfaction/disappointment, while those satisfied are so perfectly satisfied they give it no thought. So I am quite sure there are many more satisfied canti brake users than appears in print.
Depends entirely on whether you have a skilled mechanic available who knows how to set cantilevers up. I've seen innumerable postings on the forums, mostly from cyclocross people, to the effect that it is impossible to correctly set up a cantilever brake so that it does not squeal and it does not shudder.
Mine are among the challenging ones (smooth-post Shimano Deore XTs, where when you loosen the mounting bolt the pad has as many degrees of freedom as a fried chicken wing when you twist the "wing" part free from the "leg" part and nothing's holding it but the skin) and yet, although I have had my share of grossly incompetent mechanics work on them and either grossly misadjust them or give up in despair, I've also had them adjusted by Cycles Ed from Ashland VA. (If you've attended the Peanut Tour or Bike Virginia you probably know Cycles Ed.)
Ed has worked on those brakes when I had them on my Saluki, and he's worked on those brakes when I moved them over to the MAP. And Ed has been able to adjust them so they don't squeal or misbehave in any way. As I tell those people, if Ed can do it and they cannot, the difference is in their skill or lack of it, not in the brakes.
However, both those bikes are steel, with steel forks and steel steerers -- not cyclocross bikes with carbon forks. I'm willing to concede, it may be that 'cross bikes with carbon forks can't be fixed so that they don't shudder.
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