That's right Steve, and looking at your setup, the straddle seems to be 4-5" up and at about 65-75 degrees. As the brake arm lifts it moves toward 90 degrees and should gain power.
BTW, nice looking bike. Michael On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 6:15:22 PM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > On 08/26/2016 06:01 PM, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I suspect that Shimano levers simply pull too much cable to work well > with cantis. I used Ultegra STI levers very successfully with Ultegra > brakes, but when I put them on a bike with Shimano cantis, I all but ended > up inside the back of a pickup truck. > > > I have Shimano road aero brake levers on my MAP, which has Deore XT high > profile cantilevers. They work just fine. > > > -- 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.
