I have no experience with the CX 70, and very little with V brakes. I did have a pair of earlier Shimano cantis, mated to Ultegra brifters, and lots of experience with Paul's brakes, and accessories.
The Shimono cantis I had were a precursor to the present offering, model 550 or something? The setup was difficult and the stopping was awful. Salmon pads and Tektro levers improved both the setup and performance to average. My wife briefly had a bike with V brakes, which gave me some familiarity. Everyone I know who has V brakes speaks highly of their performance but keep in mind they were designed to stop a mt. bike on a single track downhill, i.e. low speed, low weight, and steep descent. Traditional road touring bikes use cantis, which were designed to stop hi mass and hi speed bikes. I have Paul's Racer M's on my Ram, Racers on our tandem, and Neo-retros on my Saluki. By far I prefer the Neo-retros. All of these brakes work very well. It's hard for me to compare the braking performance of a tandem and single bike as there is just too many variables to consider, but if I had to pick one brake it would be the neos. They offer fantastic power and optimal tire / fender clearance. They do get rather grimy because cantis sit below the fenders. Many people find the Paul's difficult to set-up, but I believe that is because they are thinking in Shimano. The first couple of times can feel confusing, despite good directions on the website, but after a couple of times it feel pretty intuitive and goes in a straightforward way. I find it helpful with cantis to have a QR on the lever and a good barrel adjuster to fine tune the final set-up. I literally owe my life to my neo retros so I am without apology, biased. Michael On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 5:07:30 PM UTC-5, dstein wrote: > > I have the CX70 brakes with kool stop salmon pads on my 26" hunq (which is > currently running a 650b wheelset with the brake pads all the way at the > top position) and the brakes have always felt too squishy to me, even just > after picking the bike up new from Rivendell, and it certainly hasn't help > that I've fiddled with them so much over time. > > Would V brakes like the Motolite or Minimoto work on the cantiliver > bosses? They seem to get very positive reviews. Clearance seems to be an > issue. Or would Paul Touring Canti or Neo Rretro brakes make more sense for > this frame and wheelset/tire choices (and if so is there really an > advantage of Paul canti's vs. the Shimano's)? > > I'm using Shimano road brake levers on Albastache bars. 650b x 42mm > compass tires, though I am thinking of going with the rat trap passes and > going back to the 26" wheelset. > > Or can someone school me in how get my CX70's nice and tight so I don't > need to look at other options (I've tried a LBS for adjustments and that > didn't seem to help). > -- 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.
