Check and check.
I had forgotten how well the salmon pads worked. I just replaced the fork on my bike and put a v brake I had laying around with salmon pads on it and endo’d the first night out on it and got a cut on my leg from the basket which then got infected.
Canti equipped tandem is where I devised this setup. It stops.
Actually all the bikes in the house have cantis come to think of it
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Canti equipped tandem is where I devised this setup. It stops.
Actually all the bikes in the house have cantis come to think of it[/quote]
How do those brakes function? I am having trouble figuring it out.
Isn’t it just a fucking v-brake at that point? Unless you’re really dedicated to the levers you’ve got fuck it.
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Canti equipped tandem is where I devised this setup. It stops.
Actually all the bikes in the house have cantis come to think of it[/quote]
How do those brakes function? I am having trouble figuring it out.[/quote]
Cable pulls NDS caliper, housing pushes what I think is a floating stop, which in turn pulls the DS caliper. At least that’s what it looks like to me.
I think it’s really awesome, but I’d personally just get some Vs and those hideous tektro v-ratio levers.
Wait, are you nerds shitting on those brakes? Because that shit right there is the spirit of Tarckbear.
Not shitting on at all. Just wanting to know how they work!
They work by applying so much braking force that the rim collapses under the pressure and you’re forced to stop 
They are awesome and beautiful, but I’m a lazy, mostly poorly skilled bike mechanic, so I’d take the easy way out.
It’s effectively a very short arm v-brake, with the link wire running over a roller to clear the tire. And I hate those tektro v-levers
Everything about those V-brake levers is terrible. I support nerd brakes.
thread is reminding me how i need new pads on my canti brake touring bike after not being able to slow down AT ALL on a gravel descent a couple weeks ago
Same here. I have salmon pads on mine but they haven’t been replaced since I got the bike.
TC I have v-brakes and the above-hated Tektro levers on my LHT and it all works well enough that I’ve lost interest in a disc road bike for the foreseeable future
Would you be interested in posting a parts list + step-by-step? Now I feel like I have to at least try it.
I had some fun annotating the pic. short of the roller it should all be kitbashable from bike parts bins.
other notes:
- besides choice of levers, a decent use case for this setup is on an old touring bike that will not fit any v-brake.
- another good use case is, you have a front rack and are suffering pokes judder – it’s easier to stack a front rack tang on this than on most fork crown cable hangers.
- stiction in the roller will make it behave in the stand like it doesn’t want to self center. the precise housing length will also have an effect on centering. However if you get the pads vaguely clearing the rim in the stand it’ll be fine on the road IME, normal vibration / wobble will have the effect of knocking the pads away from the rim. The cure would be to use twice as stiff a spring for the cantis.
- Chalo Colina made the beefiest rim brake of all time, but I can’t find the original pics http://yarchive.net/bike/brake_rigidity.html
I have one of those old Cannondale nautiloid thingees in my junk box if someone wants it.
Thanks
Tarck, and the people who it is made of, are the best