Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
But the "muscle" required to squeeze the lever of a single vs a dual is very little, it's not like trying to squeeze one of those V hand exerciser devices! And you also agreed with me! yes you did. when you replied about the limits of adhesion on the tire; but you were wrong when you said it takes quite a lot of hand force...this is obvious from a person who has never used good quality single pivot brakes.
All you guys must be wimps. I can't believe you all think it takes a super human to stop a bike using single pivots, this is just lunacy.
You should have seen the ration of rag that I took when I suggested that V-brake levers will work with cantys or calipers. I don't know how many pounds of force it takes to operate a bicycle brake but I don't think that it's very much. If it takes 5 lbs with a canty lever that would make it 10 lbs with a V-brake lever. That's double but it's still not very much.