This braking stuff is a bunch of nonsense!

I have dual pivot, single pivot, linear pull, and center pull cantilever brakes. And I can attest that if you have the same tires, same rims, same weight factors, same road conditions, all brakes adjusted to factory specs with new pads on all four different brake systems, they will all stop the bikes in the same amount of distance.

If you riding as a larger clydesdale, or touring with a heavy load, or tandem riding, then single and dual pivot design is not the best type of brake to use because the calipers can flex hindering braking efficiency and this is why the cantilever was invented for, but now disk brakes have come along which do even a better job with heavy loaded bicycles. Technically a cantilever is a dual pivot but it uses way shorter caliper arms with each are attached to the fork sides rather then one central mount and thus the flex is reduced significantly.

What I don't like about dual pivots is that lessen ability to modulate the brake vs the others, and dual pivots cannot track a out of true rim as well as single pivots. Also dual pivot brakes are a bit heavier then single pivot designs if that's worth anything. When I say dual pivot here in this paragraph I'm not referring to cantilever, the cantilever design will easily track a out true rim because of it's dual mounting system, single mounting hinder this ability in regards to dual pivots.