Hey Patrick, evidently yes, at least Riv says that's how you'd pick between them. From the new Riv catalog, emphasis mine:
"Sam is a hair stouter, so we give it more burly points than Homer, *but the Sam and Homer are 95 percent functional clones, and you can pick by color or brake type*." Thus my point, esp. since neither Sam nor Homer are featherweight carbon wannbes, so I don't think anyone can say choosing 1 brake over the other would be done for weight of its brakes. If not weight, then what? Grant himself says pick by color or brake type. You get wider tires & fenders with canti/V, and I believe the consensus is that sidepulls are technically weaker, whatever. And nothing's preventing anyone from putting skinny tires on a canti/V brake bike. Tom On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 2:16:07 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > This I don't get. Are buyers choosing between very similar or identical > frames or bikes because of the type of rim brake? > -- 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.
