On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 11:10:30 AM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I have lots of experience with bunches of SP & canti brakes, along with > assorted levers, but very little with V brakes and none with disks. During > the last month I have had the opportunity to try both out. We have test > ridden two tandems (a DaVinci with ICS and a CoMotion with a Rolhoff). > Much to my surprise I could not tell much difference between those to sets > of disk brakes and the neo retros on our tandem. Both the power and > modulation felt very similar. I am now visiting my son in El Cerrito and > we borrowed a bike with Tectro V brakes. I found them very powerful but > the front brake had almost no modulation at all. Just the slightest touch > of the lever brought the bike to a complete stop. > > Is this typical of V brakes? Do others who have tried these have a > similar impression? >
My experience with v-brakes is very positive. I use them with Campy ergo levers and like that the bike stops with the slightest touch! There's also no vibration/shuddering or sequealing either. I had a terrible Suntour xc pro canti front brake with kool stop salmon pads and all the bike did was squeal, shudder and rattle. I put on a $20 cheapie tektro mini v-brake and it was amazing! I had instant stopping power without all the noise and vibration! I would never go back to cantis. Highly recommend mini v-brakes! In fact, my new bike will have Paul mini v-brakes on it! Disc brakes? I hear they're great on tandems. My friends who have them, ride singles and love disc brakes! They won't go back! The only negative report about disc on tandems I've seen is by Santana as they prefer v-brakes and dual pivots over disc. But based on comments in various forums, it sounds like they are in the minority: http://santanatandems.com/Techno/BrakePower.html Good Luck! > > Michael > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
