Michael, My experience is similar to yours. I've no experience with disc brakes. It took me a while to figure out how to set up the canti brakes on my Bombadil, but since I did they have been fine. I was one who voted for the SImpleOnes to get side/center/dual pivot brakes but I have no complaints with the canti arrangement they ended up with. The canti brakes on our tandem have served fine. I've read from time to time that folks think RBW bikes are overbuilt. Perhaps that's part of the reason why I haven't experienced problems with anti brakes on them. I have used a yoke mounted Raid on my AHH, and I had a fork with posts made which I've also used. I don't notice much difference in baking performance between those arrangements. One semi-theoretical advantage of CP brakes I do believe in though, the distance from the pivot to the brake pad seems longer on side/center pulls so the vertical movement and change in angle as the pad wears should be less than with canti's.
On a tangent to all this, I noticed the other day that you can select 4 different flavors (neglecting the "rinko" version) of Compass CP brakes now. With normal or rack mounting bolts, and with or without 'yoke'. Does that mean Jan is now selling mounting yokes so those without brazed on posts can use his brakes without scrounging up old Mafac Raid yokes? On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 2:06:25 PM UTC-8, Michael Hechmer 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-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.
