BB7's with avid speed dial levers have a great amount of adjustability. You can change the pad spacing. With the levers you can adjust the reach and the pad contact, works for me YRMV. You can also change the cable leverage point for balance between power and modulation. These are a cable disk brakes. I use them on a commuter, a touring and a mountain bike. The reason they work great for me is that the disks are out of the mud , slop and snow, unlike rim brakes. There is a reason that disks are sold on almost every new mountain bike over $ 750.00.