Originally Posted by
wroomwroomoops
I guess your hub doesn't have the holes for a rotor? If, by an incredibly unlikely chance, it does, I would recommend this Avid's Mechanical BB7 brakes. They are rather cheap (~$40-4$5 with rotor) and unanimously considered the best mechanical disc brakes. An Avid Speed Dial 7 brake lever set would cost you about $20 (seen on Amazon), and it is, likewise, one of the best levers for the price.
You'd be within budget. And your bike would stop when you want it to.
wroom: i looked around about posts concerning disc brakes and found the following..
Disc brakes do generally require less maintenance, but it's not that they're self adjusting, they just have thinner pads and move less to brake, so they seem to stay in adjustment for longer... also they don't rely on your rim being true so you can use less clearance between the pads and the rotor.
I've been commuting with some BB7s for a few months and love that they brake better in wet and muddy conditions, that they have more overall stopping power, and that they're cleaner (you don't end up with rubber-dust covered rims), but there are some requirements that often get in the way of using them:
You must have a frame and fork with disc brake mounts
You must have hubs with rotor mounts
You must be using long-pull style road levers, mountain V brake levers, or included hydraulic levers - so if you're running an average road bike, you'd be spending hundreds of dollars plus the cost of brakes to get all the bits associated with using them.
If you've already got mounts, disc hubs, and long pull levers, a set of disc brakes will run you less than $100 for decent mechanical ones and does have some considerable advantages.
... i'll have to check if the iro angus has these mountings; off the top of my head though, i don't remember seeing the proper mountings from photos of the frame i've seen.
edit: in any case, i live in south west new mexico. it's pretty dry around here and this will mostly be a commuting bike between home/university/market... so some cheap but reliable cantilevers/calipers should work fine for me.
Originally Posted by
TheBikeRollsOn
I think the OP just needs a lever. Also, I imagine the OP wants to spend the leftover afterstock budget money on a good saddle/stem/pedals/whatever. Instead of spending his entire budget on a brake system. But maybe I completely misinterpreted the post.
thebikerollson: mm, i'm getting the mks silvan pedal kit from iro.. and hope that the bullhorns i have in my configuration will work well with whatever tt levers i get (those tektros looked good by the way)
what i need outside of my basic bicycle build (getting complete bike from iro):
1. front brake AND tt brake lever
2. cetma front rack
3. ... i really hope the seat comes with the complete build