Re: [RBW] Brake levers for setting up Canti front and V for rear wheel

[Joe Bernard]

I'm with Patrick on this, if you're going to use a canti front then I don't see 
how a v rear helps anything. 

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Re: [RBW] Brake levers for setting up Canti front and V for rear wheel

[Brewster Fong]

Agree. I had the cheapest mini-v brakes up front (Tektro 926al) and a 
Suntour XC Pro canti brake in the rear and worked well. The problem I had 
with canti up front was it would squeal, shudder and had almost no stopping 
power. I changed pads to Kool stop salmon and that helped, but the problems 
persisted. I was consistently adjusting the front canti and it would work 
for like 5 minutes or maybe one ride. In the end, my LBS suggested giving 
the cheap v-brake a shot and WOW, all of a sudden I had stopping power 
without any shuddering or squealing!  

Of course, I later learned that one option that might have helped would be 
to use a fork cable hanger as it might have stopped the squealing and 
shuddering, maybe...it looks like this:

[image: Tektro Front Cable Hangar with Adjusting Barrel 1-1/8]

Of course, YMMV! 

Good Luck!

On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 1:34:12 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote:
>
> Since V brakes are often (not always!) more powerful (meaning, here, brake 
> harder for given hand pressure) than cantilevers, I'd say that you are 
> wasting your time thinking of a V for the rear. I can see a V for the 
> front, leaving aside modulation, if you want a higher stopping 
> power-to-hand pressure, but in the rear, anything works, IME -- even the 
> most horribly ineffective brakes I've used in front worked fine in the rear.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 2:16 PM Ash > wrote:
>
>> Generally I have no problems with v-brakes.  I like them.  When I used 
>> them on my last 2 Riv builds, I felt like they can a bit too abrupt for 
>> front wheels at times.  A modulator solved that problem.  Since I do not go 
>> on mountain biking or on technical trails, a little mushiness the modulator 
>> introduces is not an issue.
>>
>> However, I like experimenting.  Will at Riv had once mentioned in passing 
>> that Canti for front ant v for back would be ideal.  That idea stuck with 
>> me.  My new Susie is going to be built that way.  Ideally I would like the 
>> brake levers on left and right to have the same feel.  Is there a v-brake 
>> lever that has a similarly shaped canti counterpart?  Or are there levers 
>> that support both modes? 
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Re: [RBW] Brake levers for setting up Canti front and V for rear wheel

[Patrick Moore]

Since V brakes are often (not always!) more powerful (meaning, here, brake
harder for given hand pressure) than cantilevers, I'd say that you are
wasting your time thinking of a V for the rear. I can see a V for the
front, leaving aside modulation, if you want a higher stopping
power-to-hand pressure, but in the rear, anything works, IME -- even the
most horribly ineffective brakes I've used in front worked fine in the rear.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 2:16 PM Ash  wrote:

> Generally I have no problems with v-brakes.  I like them.  When I used
> them on my last 2 Riv builds, I felt like they can a bit too abrupt for
> front wheels at times.  A modulator solved that problem.  Since I do not go
> on mountain biking or on technical trails, a little mushiness the modulator
> introduces is not an issue.
>
> However, I like experimenting.  Will at Riv had once mentioned in passing
> that Canti for front ant v for back would be ideal.  That idea stuck with
> me.  My new Susie is going to be built that way.  Ideally I would like the
> brake levers on left and right to have the same feel.  Is there a v-brake
> lever that has a similarly shaped canti counterpart?  Or are there levers
> that support both modes?
>
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[RBW] Brake levers for setting up Canti front and V for rear wheel

[Ash]

Generally I have no problems with v-brakes.  I like them.  When I used them 
on my last 2 Riv builds, I felt like they can a bit too abrupt for front 
wheels at times.  A modulator solved that problem.  Since I do not go on 
mountain biking or on technical trails, a little mushiness the modulator 
introduces is not an issue.

However, I like experimenting.  Will at Riv had once mentioned in passing 
that Canti for front ant v for back would be ideal.  That idea stuck with 
me.  My new Susie is going to be built that way.  Ideally I would like the 
brake levers on left and right to have the same feel.  Is there a v-brake 
lever that has a similarly shaped canti counterpart?  Or are there levers 
that support both modes? 

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