Building a cross bike

[Dickason_Daniel]

thanks for the protip.
like these?

and quoted (bold=POWERTHIRST) for awesome:

The straddle rod will dramatically increase braking power by replacing your old stretched out straddle cables with non stretch direct contact rods that will hammer your cantilever brake shoes home. This is the equivalent of putting power brakes on your bike. Are you dealing with soft cantilever brakes when you really need to stop? Thinking about spending hundreds of dollars converting to V brake applications? Pop one of these on the front and rear of your bike and you will never complain about braking power again.

sounds like there’s none of it that you don’t get.

[Rusty_Piton]

I got my rear V in the mail today.
I can’t wait to install it on my Check.
It’ll be real nice to have fully functioning brakes again.

[hambeki]

Why are you v’ing the rear and not the front Rusty? Seems kind of counterintuitive to me.

And why doesn’t the spellcheck on this website recognize counterintuitive?

And the purple is OK, but I really need blue to match my headset.

[Dickason_Daniel]

they haz blue.

[Rusty_Piton]

Because the front canti works fine and the rear doesn’t and I’m cheap.
Also, the front fender is a real bitch to get under the V brake cable and aside from being cheap, I’m also very lazy.

[hambeki]

@sneaky viking

they haz blue.

Well now I have to buy them.

[Dickason_Daniel]

good. tell me if they work.
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[Dickason_Daniel]

@Rusty Piton

Because the front canti works fine and the rear doesn’t and I’m cheap.

Thinking about spending hundreds of dollars converting to V brake applications? Pop one of these on the front and rear of your bike and you will never complain about braking power again.

[barba]

Those actually look like a good idea to me. Someone buy them.

[hambeki]

I’m actually thinking about picking up a pair for the Klein, just for the old school build fun.

[barba]

I would but I finally got mine working acceptably. I am not fucking with that until presented with evidence. The price is certainly fair.

[Dickason_Daniel]

I haven’t mentally crossed the line to accept red, gold, blue, or purple anodized parts into my life.

[barba]

The trick is to imagine yourself in the mid 1990s. Now you are ready to embrace anodized parts.

[halbritt]

WTF, nobody has bought these yet?

Edit: You guys are punks. I bought a set and I don’t even have a bike with cantilevers. I’ll put 'em on a friend’s bike and see how well they work.

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