[email protected] (Jon Isaacs) wrote:
>>V-brakes with levers for old-fashioned cantis? I tried that once, got a faceplant after less than
>>10 meters, fortunately I was going very slow and landed on some snow, so I didn't even scratch my
>>glasses.
That's hardly fair - there's NOTHING soft to land on in the Arizona desert. Then again, I
guess it is balanced out by having nice warm dry weather all the time (only outrageously hot 4
months a year).
>The topic here is the opposite, Cantilever brakes with brake levers (on the handlebars) designed
>for use with Vbrakes.
>
>The effect would be the opposite of your experience. Ride through some water and then head
>downhill, pull like hell and still nothing.
Well, not nothing... there will be this horrible screeching noise.
Until you crash, at which time you'll stop screeching until you come to again... ;-)
Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles
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