I've never ridden V's, I road many different cantilevers, and my next bike had hayes discs. I've had these breaks for 3 years and I've never even changed a pad. I've never gone a day with no breaks, can't say the same about my cantilever days. I'd never go with rim breaks again. The power of a hydraulic disc break is just unbeatable. What does a motor cycle use? Or your car for that matter. It is simply the best way to stop a moving object outside of artificial gravity fields :-D