I'll bet they weren't as bad as my all-time tied losers: Avid BB7 *road bike design* disks; absolutely useless even with 180 front rotor, best housing and organic pads. The *mountain* design is very good.
Mafac Cantis, both single and tandem versions (salmons, of course and with both OEM Mafac levers and modern Tektros. Professionals could not get these to work. Both kinds were good enough to ride the bikes with, but no pleasant. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Michael Hechmer <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I'm rather late to this discussion but after 35 years of riding I have > set up and used a lot of brakes. The two worst brakes I have ever had were > shimano (550?) cantis and an early, mid 80's diacompe canti. Both hard to > set up and poor stopping with shimano levers. My favorite have been the > Paul's neo-retros. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
