Another data point: I just road a very wet, very muddy Farmer's Daughter gravel ride with center pulls, stopped just fine. My Le Tour mixte city bike has them as well, and gets ridden rain or shine. Traditionalist who ride mostly dry roads? That almost sounds like an insult;^) These brakes have been stopping bicycles just fine in all weather for generations.
Every once in a great while I wipe down my rims with 000 steel wool and alcohol. If I'm using vintage 1970s brake blocks, I like to rough them up just a bit with a file. When they wear out, I replace with the go-to Koolstops. I'm mystified, given similar brake pad compounds, how a V-brake gives any better wet weather stopping power than a center pull. But either way, there's a Riv for that! On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 7:08:43 AM UTC-4, Eric Daume wrote: > > I like the old centerpulls on my Fuji 650B conversion, strong braking with > good modulation... until they get wet, then they're crap until the rims are > cleared. Compare that to the V brakes on my Black Mountain, which are > strong all the time. And have better tire clearance. > > So put me in the canti/V camp, save the caliper brakes for traditionalists > who ride on mostly dry roads. > > Eric > > -- 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.
