Road Cycling - Stopping power: Cane Creek 200sl vs. dual pivot Ultegra or whatever

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Lolo
12-15-03, 11:29 AM
Hi,

just curious if anyone has any experience with the Cane Creek 200SL calipers. right now I have dual pivot 105 brakes from '95 or '96 or thereabouts and there's a steepish 6 mile long descent with a few extra scary (for me) parts that I ride pretty regularly--and I'm wondering if the Cane Creek brakes would make those parts even scarier or .. whether it'd be about the same... or what.


can anyone hold forth on the subject?


Thanks!

Lo

fogrider
12-15-03, 03:02 PM
I learn to decend with old (pre-1990 delta) campy brakes. Campy refered them as speed modulators and not brakes. This means that they will slow you down a little. On technical decends this was a little scarey, but I learned to brake early how to set up my line and carried my speed through a turn. I have been on a bike with the 200SL, I thought they were very strong brakes.
dexmax
12-15-03, 07:44 PM
i have not used the cane creek 200sl but I do use a single pivot sidepull brake now, a shimano 105 sidepull, attached a pic below.

I use the singlepivot because, it lighter than the dual pivot cousin--or so they say. But breaking power is not as good as the dual pivots. But I think I can control the brake intensity more with the single pivot.. maybe its just me.

I don't really think that we need brakes as strong as V-brakes, but it does help.. :)