"Per my education, the Neo-Retro needs the cable yoke to be as high as possible"
You were educated incorrectly, or made the wrong conclusion from your education. The Mechanical Advantage (MA) of wide profile cantilever brakes like the Paul Neo-Retro is mathematically pretty FLAT as a function of yoke height. It doesn't matter much how high you make the yoke with wide profile cantilevers. Your description of not having enough power, and not being able to stop the bike with the front brake means you have TOO LITTLE Mechanical Advantage. Even though the MA of your front brake is comparatively flat, the higher the yoke is, the less MA you have. If you want to see how much more Mechanical Advantage is available to you, lower the yoke height as low as you feel comfortable lowering it. Mathematically, it won't make a huge of difference, but it will be more Mechanical Advantage, and that might feel great to you. If you try it with the yoke low, and still don't feel like you have enough power, then a narrower profile brake like the Touring Cantilever, has far more range of MA vs yoke height. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
