Originally Posted by
Shimagnolo
In general, I'm unimpressed with cycling brakes.
They all seem to be uniformly weak.
In the real world, motor vehicles have brakes sized to accommodate the weight.
In the cycling world, we are stuck in the one-size-fits-all mentality.
That said, I have bikes with road calipers, linear-pull (v-brakes), and cantilevers, and the best improvement I've made on all of them is KoolStop salmon pads.
How on earth can you say all bikes are "uniformly weak" but then go on to talk about how you've got bikes with calipers, as well as ones with V-Brakes?
If your v-brakes and levers are made out of metal instead of walmart-tier plastic they're massively more powerful than calipers are and can lock the wheels at any speed. I think you probably just set them up wrong.