On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:22:17 +0000, Jules wrote:
> I disagree. In my experience they don't offer either of these things,
> and I've never had brake failure of any sort, rain or otherwise.
Commuting on busy roads with occasional heavy rain. When you can see the
oil patterns on the 10cm deep water you know your brakes are about to do
interesting things. It doesn't happen often, but I've had that kind of
rain while commuting twice. First time my brakes took about 5 seconds to
come on on a steepish downhill (after scraping them about a minute
beforehand to ensure they were working). That resulted in a fairly low
speed OTB when they came on as I was trying to put the bike down without
hurting myself too much. Second time I had discs and just kept braking like
normal. I've had other times where the rim brakes had a noticeable lag
when being applied. Discs do that too, but the higher pressure removes
goop much quicker, so they clear themselves in ~2m (one revolution) rather
than 10.
> Dunno where you buy your V brake shoes, but MTB ones seem to go for a
> handful of dollars where I've looked! The pads I just ordered were
> cheap at $25 for the set.
A set of decent V brake pads costs around $12-15 most places I've seen. In
commuting use I'll kill a set in around 2500km at a guess (6 months of
solid commuting). I get at least that out of Deore pads racing off road,
and haven't worn out a set on road yet.My old style XT pads (~$50 a set)
are currently around 3 years old and still going strong.
And eBay or mail order can halve the price of pads, though that probably
applies to rim pads as well.
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