Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Front breaks are awesome: Which is the most awesome though?

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Please note:

this is a front break:
http://www.ruralmysteries.com/images/BlurBreak1.jpg

this is a front brake:
http://www.bikesomewhere.com/images/big/br-66001.jpg

Thank you.

Ha ha! That's why nothing showed up in my searches. Sucks being Swedish... Thanks.

Please note:

this is a front break:
http://www.ruralmysteries.com/images/BlurBreak1.jpg


Since we're being pedantic and grammatical.

That's not a break. Sure it might be broke, but break infers the act of damaging something.

Ha ha! That's why nothing showed up in my searches. Sucks being Swedish... Thanks.
better to be swedish than be american and a complete idiot

i really dig ultegra and dura ace brakes.

Since we're being pedantic and grammatical.

That's not a break. Sure it might be broke, but break infers the act of damaging something.

You know the word "pedantic" but you don't know that "break" is also a noun?

Seriously???

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/break

Right down by number 68.



As to the OP, does it matter what style of brake? The best stopping power is going to come from linear pull V brakes, and as for road calipers my experience is limitted to a set of Tektro calipers which work ok but haven't really astounded me with their awesomeness

Wow proper grammar and spelling is obviously necessary in a online forum.
If you know what it means, who cares.

edit:
i just bought myself some cane creek scr-3s, ill let you know if they are any good.

Sucks being Swedish... Thanks.

Haha, as a Dane, I concur!! :roflmao2:

(just kidding!)

Haha, as a Dane, I concur!! :roflmao2:
"Danskjävlar!"
-Ernst Hugo Järegård, in Lars Von Trier's "Riget"/"The Kingdom"

"Danskjävlar!"
-Ernst Hugo Järegård, in Lars Von Trier's "Riget"/"The Kingdom"

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For the lever Diatech Goldfinger. It's inexpensive, hinged and solid.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31PTFAPEYDL._SS500_.jpg

For the lever....
Need it all chrome because I'm a poseur!

You know the word "pedantic" but you don't know that "break" is also a noun?

Seriously???

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/break

Right down by number 68.


http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg194/unregistered_coward/whoosh.gif?t=1227886689

Take it apart, rough it up with some steel-wool and Krylon it any color you want.. same with your brake calipers.

Any of the dual pivot sidepull calipers should be good as long as you go with premium brake pads such as Kool Stops, properly adjusted. Pads can make a big difference in brake performance. Even the older single pivot sidepulls can be improved a lot with good pads and low friction cables.

As mentioned V brakes are probably the strongest cable operated rim brakes but they require cantilever posts on the fork to mount and need the correct pull length levers.

better to be swedish than be american and a complete idiot

or from Florida :lol:

Need it all chrome because I'm a poseur!

Well there's this weird lever: http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=188_482&products_id=5970 (http://www.benscycle.net/bmz_cache/6/68595e91ac7c10f01775f767538b035d.image.100x66.jpg)

Or this guy, but the clamp is black, but you can strip it if you want: http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=188_482&products_id=4479 (http://www.benscycle.net/bmz_cache/2/296d110e41d7dc5e9d25089c60cf7dd2.image.900x598.jpg)

It's tough to find what you're looking for. Believe me, I did.

I love paul component love levers. http://www.paulcomp.com/cantilever.jpg

Avid Code, all the way.

....I mean Ultegra/DA with a Paul Love Lever and Nokon Housing.

Melbourne, Sweden?

105's did me well.