Maybe I just don't know how bad I have it, but I get on just fine the the CR720s on the two bikes I own that have canilever studs on em. They seem to work fine to me, they were cost effective, and I think they look nice. But I don't think that qualifies as having "cantilever- brake-love", whereas the folks who seem convinced that all canti's can't stop a bike acceptably seem to have cantilever-brake-hate. It just doesn't fit with my experience. Am I just being reckless by using such disfunctional brakes?
On May 11, 11:13 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and form follows function. I think > old rod-brake English roadsters have a nice aesthetic, but I'd never go out > of my way to own or ride one. > > I believe a lot of cantilever-brake-love has to do with Joe B's observation > that v-brakes are seen as new technology (nowadays mostly associated with > lower end comfort bikes rather than higher end MTBs), and cantis are seen > as classic and more high-brow. > > > > > > > > On Friday, May 11, 2012 11:30:21 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 09:18 -0700, Joe Broach wrote: > > > Ugly probably shouldn't matter on a bike, but for some reason it does. > > > Why shouldn't it? We are, after all, descended from the same people who > > painted cave walls 35,000 years ago. What could be more > > characteristically human than art and aesthetics? Beauty matters. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
