Wow! There are similar squabblings taking place right now vis-a-vis cranksets on the BOB list.
I've collected a stash of NOS Suntour XC pro cantis over the years as they are, to my eye, just delightfully elegant and simple. Those gleaming pointy-hat fixing bolts just make me smile. But I digress; I have them installed on three very nice bicycles, with thick, chunky Scott-Mathauser pads & thin Eagle (orange) pads and they were all easily adjusted with no squealing. I ride fast (sometimes) and have just never noticed any fork flex or modulation issues. And I've never run a red light or careened off a mountain pass...yes we have mountains in GA--including two formidable up & downs: Hogpen Gap & Brasstown Bald. Man, if you don't bend a fork braking down either one of those beasts, you ain't gonna bend a fork, ha! I guess, with nearly all things bicycle, this wise rule applies: YMMV. BEST / Jock Dewey / Athens, GA On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:18:12 PM UTC-5, Brewster Fong wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 4:13:58 PM UTC-8, Eric Daume wrote: >> >> I'll say, V brakes are the ones that don't seem to get any respect. >> Cantis still have some cool factor from the 'cross crowd, but V brake seem >> mostly relegated to cheap hybrids. But if you look at power, cost, weight, >> modulation, and set up ease, I think V's would at least get a podium finish >> in every category. >> >> IME, for snow and ice, disc brakes are the best. Otherwise, I would be >> happy with V brakes on everything else. >> > > Agree. I had suntour xc pro canti brakes and hated them on the front! No > matter what I did - change pads, adjust toe-in, etc. It would work for a > few rides then it was back to the squealing and shuddering. This was on a > steel frame bike with a steel fork too. I was using Campy ergo shifters > and it was a pain. So I went into my LBS and they said try a mini-v brake. > I bought the cheapest Tektro 926al for about $20 and wow, what a > difference! It was like night and day! No more squealing or shuddering or > the lever almost hitting the handlebar. It just worked. It was like the > best $20 I ever spent! I gave away that suntour canti brake, but still > keep the one in the rear as I didn't have a problem with it. > > So my new frame is going to have Paul minimoto mini-v brakes. I tried the > Pauls on another friend's bike and it worked great. Also, easy to adjust > too. > > Of course, YMMV! Good Luck! > >> >> Eric Daume >> Plain City, OH >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Michael Hechmer <mhec...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Probably like a lot of us, I got an email announcing a Jan Hein blog >>> comparing rim & disk brakes. Now, I have almost no experience with disk >>> brakes but much of what I read makes me think they could be a good choice >>> for some bikes. I found myself saying, not my experience, when he >>> compared posted CP and canti brakes. Jan has a phenomenal amount of >>> experience that's hard to challenge, but.... My experience of modulation >>> with good, and I emphasize good, cantis has not been any less than with >>> good CP brakes. The issue of shutter, which he raises with cantis, because >>> they mount lower on the fork than CP brakes, seems, to me, to be related to >>> the skill of the bike builder. >>> >>> Here's my experience with Cantis vs CP brakes. My early Saluki, with >>> Paul's cantis offers excellent stopping power and modulation that is just >>> as good as the Pauls's CP brakes on my Rambouilet. I originally had Pauls >>> posted CP on my tandem with 38 mm tires and converted the frame to cantis >>> in order to go to 45mm and switched to Paul's neo-retros. There is no >>> difference in modulation, the cantis might offer a minute amount of extra >>> braking (when set up properly). However a tandem might not be an exact >>> comparison to braking on a single. The extra mass is huge, but the extra >>> weight in the rear (no offense honey) helps to keep the rear wheel planted >>> and adds to rear braking power. >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
