Travel agent(s)
I think you are right. I had enough of canti’s in the late 80’s early 90’s and they made my life a misery in XC races. But two weeks ago I built up this bike, and it actually came with these brakes on it. All I needed to do was give them a small tweak and build a straddle cable for the rear one, concentrating on keeping it pretty low. I was really surprised at how good they were. It did not match my memory of how shit they were back in the day, but I think I was probably using the lower profile versions then. These are very solid, but don’t feel very progressive. Full vees with travel agents are great, or mini-vees, if you have clearance. I reckon these are the ones in your piccie Blakey?
yeah, looks a lot like them. The model is cast in on the back side of the arm.
Someone who is skilled at setting up canti brakes, because aligning smooth post canti pads is some awful arcane magic. (I say this as a person running smooth post cantis on a bike right now, god knows why)
Yep, the Altus BR-CT91 is basically just a cheaper version of the Deore XT BR-M737 or Deore LX BR-M560/M565. Never used the Altus version; I imagine they operate just the same but are made of cheaper/heavier materials.
Yeah, MT60 and M730 these are great! Put some Koolstop Eagles on them to replace whatever 30-year-old rock-hard pads they come with.
What about BR-CX50/CX70? I’ve heard those are the bees knees, as far as modern canti brakes are concerned.
Stock replacement pads equal to price of canti’s, not sure if after market ones will fit. edit refers to CX50
They’re particularly cool because of how the installation process is designed to be fully discrete. if you can follow simple instructions it all just falls into place with no compound adjustments.
The pads are on fixed-length spacers that you pick from the set based on your rim width and how far apart your canti studs are
The CX70 comes with standard pad holders, just replace the insert
I ordered a couple sets from GB a few weeks ago, they should be here soon
I’ve also seen something very similar mentioned as “Viva bag clips”
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Man that sounds great. Imagine that, not having to adjust and hold 2 translational axes and 3 rotational axes simultaneously! Not gonna lie, every time I have to poke at my oldschool XTR canti brakes, I consider selling them and replacing with CX70.
Thinking of trying this with p-clamps instead
And you’d just never take the bag off? … That might actually work.
I would guess that this setup works well because of the levers. I had a set of Mafac touring cantis that came on my old stumpjumper and they worked great with the bigass, full-hand dia-compe moto-style levers. When I tried to use those same brakes with sram road levers, I could not get them working anything close to acceptably.
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Yeah I mean it’s not that different from removing the GB Bag Clips (remove front wheel, unscrew)
That or Squirrel style straps
These were specially labeled as “SLR” brakes, and worked great with Shimano’s SLR road levers as well. Not sure how well they work with modern road levers.
Yeah so still the question is:
Will any of these work well with Tektro RL340?
I have it in my memory that the Altus variety worked on a bike w/ Shimano R400 brakes but who really knows? My memory is bad.
it seems like you can slide the grand boyz clips without messing with fasteners, no? or maybe the google translate just wants me to buy them
Not sure 
pls buy and report back while I investigate fidlock
I just started a 3d-printable design with a different locking mechanism. I’ll make it so the strut size in the model is adjustable.
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Get yourselves some Ortlieb clips for the bottom of the bag and ride off into the sunset.
https://www.bikeshophub.com/product/e162-ql1-top-hooks-with-handle-p-1077.html
Ooooh
this, i like