Originally Posted by cyclotoine

nothing wrong with those brakes, put a set of kool stop salmons in there. people just suck at setting up cantilevers, done properly they are superior to single pivot calipers in every way. still used on many touring and cross bikes. I don't like V-brakes personally. The side pull thing bothers me, only the high end ones work properly, cheep cantis work better than cheep V brakes. It's all in the pads, have the right yolk and cable length such that the pads are moving nearly laterally to contact the rims, you want the least amount of arc in the movement of the pad as possible.