Re: Extensive article on Rivendell and Grant Petersen

Am Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:37:55 -0400 schrieb Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>:

On 9/24/2024 5:48 AM, sms wrote:

 
 
Even racers have now switched to disc brakes. There's a tiny weigh
penalty but that is offset by improved aerodynamics.

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All my bikes since about 1970 have always had caliper brakes. I continue
to ride caliper brake bikes with no problems. I see no reason to change
to something that's more complex.

The bike I mentioned in <eid5fjluv7j6qmp87vmnv99vpcts2lfe5m@4ax.com> was
built with cantilever brakes. Didn't work well, because the shop
building the bike had made a mistake on the front brake*). Another shop
replaced it with a hydraulic Magura rim brake, which worked well, for a
while. That shop made the mistake of not adding a working brake booster,
so that brake didn't work well, either, after a while. I finally
replaced that one with a short V-Brake myself, a lot cheaper than a
Magura. Problem solved.   That worked well for me till the middle of
2011, and as far as I've been told, till the end of 2023, too. 

<https://www.mystrobl.de/Plone/radfahren/IMG-2461.jpeg>

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So can we do a poll? How many here no longer use any bikes except those
with disc brakes? How many are still somehow surviving with (horrors!)
caliper brakes?

None of those bikes we actually use outside the house have caliper
brakes. That cheap and ugly Dutch style bicycle I bought in 2012 came
with a V-brake in front (works reasonably well) and a 3-speed hub with
coaster brake (good enough for its purpose).  My wife's thirty-year-old
everyday bike (a beautiful Anglais bike from Bremer Fahrradmanufaktur)
has cantilever brakes on both wheels.

*) A poor 90° cable guide through a metal tube, which led to a wedged
inner cable.


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