Jan: After all the fiddling I talked about above on my wife's bike, I converted my Atlantis to V-brakes & the long cable pull Tektro levers. The previous brakes were Tekro 720 with Tekro's standard pull levers. The braking effort is considerably less with the V-brakes, and my arms don't wear out on long steep downhills. A side benefit is better pannier clearance. As cool & stylish as the 720s look, they get in the way. BTW, if you go with V-brakes, get noodles that have a threaded adjuster built-in. Makes fine tuning the set-up much easier, and Vs do require the pads to be quite close to the rim.
dougP On Nov 13, 11:06 pm, Jan RBW <jan....@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m planning my new country bike with drop bars and bar end shifters and > I’m considering which brakes I should choose. > > The alternatives I’m thinking at the moment are: > - Tektro CR720 cantilevers & Shimano BL-R400 levers > - Avid Single Digit 7 V-brakes & Tektro RL 520 levers > > From reading this thread I guess I should go with the V-brakes because of > the better stopping power? > > I’m open to other alternatives too if you want to recommend something. > > Jan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
