Originally Posted by
dabac
My main gripe is with cantis with "smooth" posts (well, they're often knurled in some way..). Having all axles of adjustment loose at once tended to make me wish for a 3rd hand. Not that I know if I'd been able to get those fingers as well in close enough to be useful though....
If I'd had cantis with threaded posts I don't think I'd been that eager to switch to Vs. Never had an issue with the braking power as such, apart from during foul weather rides when my hands got cold enough to begin to lose strength.
Even the threaded post shoes are a PiTA to adjust. The main benefit from swapping the Oryx to the CR720 was going from threaded post to cartridge pads. I set the pad holders
once and haven't needed to adjust them since. Pad insert are cheap as heck ($6-ish bucks) so I don't mind that I replace them more often instead of readjusting things to get the "full lifespan" out of them. I'll deal with buying 3 pairs a year; the $36.00 isn't going to bankrupt me.