My guesses: 1. It was Grant who convinced Tektro to make the R559 calipers in the first place, so I think he feels motivated to stick to his guns about the value of these brakes and continue to spec them on his bikes. 2. Production costs. The fork crowns and seatstay bridges already have brake mounts, whereas adding cantilever mounts adds four more brazing operations (at least). Fairly critical ones at that, where a strong braze and good placement/alignment are essential to the function of the bike.
All that being said, the latest batch of Sams had cantilever posts (and I was tempted by them!). They're going on pause until 2020, we'll see if they come back with posts or not then. On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 9:51:49 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Getting back to first principles here: Can anyone tell me why Riv ever > switched from cantis to calipers on the Sam Hillborne? Cantis (or v-brakes) > just make so much more sense for this bike, IMO. > > Patrick Moore, who briefly owned a canti'd Sam (with ineffably wonderful > Riv-set-up IRD cantis) and who wishes his 2003 Curt Custom had cantis (and > one day it might!), in ABQ, NM > -- 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.
