Hair trigger modulation? Please. The V brakes on my Dahon have excellent modulation; similar to hydro disc brakes, among the best brakes I’ve used.
I had centerpulls on a 650b conversion that had excellent modulation and felt great. Until the rims were wet, then they lost all power. No thanks. Eric On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > On 12/24/19 6:20 PM, Benz, Sunnyvale, CA wrote: > > On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 7:50:26 AM UTC-8, lconley wrote: >> >> On the question of V-brakes vs. Centerpulls, in my opinion V-brakes are: >> >> 1. Just too ugly. A very subjective thing. >> 2. Very hard to combine with wide/tall tires and fenders. >> > > > In practice, that is not a realistic "versus" question at all. There are > no centerpulls that would fit onto V-brake brazed-on posts. While there is > a centerpull that uses canti posts (which V brakes also do) the posts would > be positioned all wrong. The choice would be between V brakes and > cantilevers, since a frame equipped with brazed on posts suitable for the > one would also be suitable for the other. > > Of course, you are right about V brake ugliness and crowding tall tires > and fenders. You could also mention V brake hair-trigger lack of > modulation and incompatibility with road brake levers as cons. > > > -- > Steve Palincsar > Alexandria, Virginia > USA > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/98d97170-1273-d7c4-8bd8-d684ac89cbb5%40his.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/98d97170-1273-d7c4-8bd8-d684ac89cbb5%40his.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5CbxpYLEh3Vzr-7Ocbawg%3DbStRm%3DxbWQ4QhcbO2gv5ifg%40mail.gmail.com.
