Originally Posted by
|3iker
Do you mean the canti brakes? I think the reason cantilever brakes was used is due to the clearance over tires/wheels. In terms of performance, I can only speak from my ltd experience with a few CX bike I rode that has canti brakes. YUP. The canti brakes do not illicit the confident stopping power as that of V-brakes and dual pivot brakes... let alone disc brakes. Now some canti experts would say this is due to bad tuning. Maybe, however the LBS CX bikes I rode was didn't stop as well as my own bikes with amateur tuned brakes.
Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking of. I don't own a cyclocross bike myself, but I've heard about the debate several times about how cyclocross brakes aren't as fast at stopping as regular road bike brakes.