The best brakes I ever used, bar none, were IRD cantis on my erstwhile Sam Hill. Key point: they were set up by Rivendell staff. For fat tire rim brakes, I personally usually prefer V brakes, but largely because they are much easier for me to set up.
I myself have rather different experiences with Mafacs, cantis, and cable disks than Jan seems to have had. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Michael Hechmer <mhech...@gmail.com> 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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.
