Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and form follows function. I think old rod-brake English roadsters have a nice aesthetic, but I'd never go out of my way to own or ride one.
I believe a lot of cantilever-brake-love has to do with Joe B's observation that v-brakes are seen as new technology (nowadays mostly associated with lower end comfort bikes rather than higher end MTBs), and cantis are seen as classic and more high-brow. On Friday, May 11, 2012 11:30:21 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 09:18 -0700, Joe Broach wrote: > > Ugly probably shouldn't matter on a bike, but for some reason it does. > > Why shouldn't it? We are, after all, descended from the same people who > painted cave walls 35,000 years ago. What could be more > characteristically human than art and aesthetics? Beauty matters. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/cFbnsfvO5dkJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
