I haven't used V brakes much, but every bike I've tried that had V
brakes had zero modulation, purely binary like a light switch: all on or
all off. YMMV, but for me, simply no way. Never in life.
On 12/24/19 6:48 PM, Eric Daume wrote:
Hair trigger modulation? Please. The V brakes on my Dahon have
excellent modulation; similar to hydro disc brakes, among the best
brakes I’ve used.
I had centerpulls on a 650b conversion that had excellent modulation
and felt great. Until the rims were wet, then they lost all power. No
thanks.
Eric
On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com
<mailto:palin...@his.com>> wrote:
On 12/24/19 6:20 PM, Benz, Sunnyvale, CA wrote:
On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 7:50:26 AM UTC-8, lconley wrote:
On the question of V-brakes vs. Centerpulls, in my opinion
V-brakes are:
1. Just too ugly. A very subjective thing.
2. Very hard to combine with wide/tall tires and fenders.
In practice, that is not a realistic "versus" question at all.
There are no centerpulls that would fit onto V-brake brazed-on
posts. While there is a centerpull that uses canti posts (which V
brakes also do) the posts would be positioned all wrong. The
choice would be between V brakes and cantilevers, since a frame
equipped with brazed on posts suitable for the one would also be
suitable for the other.
Of course, you are right about V brake ugliness and crowding tall
tires and fenders. You could also mention V brake hair-trigger
lack of modulation and incompatibility with road brake levers as cons.
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