Originally Posted by
3alarmer
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...I'm really surprised by all the MAFAC h8erz in this thread. I have probably had, over the years, fifty or sixty bikes with MAFAC centerpull brakes, and they all modulated and stopped just fine. If there is a drawback to them, it is the lack of a quick release, other than the straddle cable end. So the kludge for that was (is) to swap out the levers for something with a release, or to use something inline on the cable.
Any centerpull brake from the glory days of them has the obvious advantage of dual pivots, while most (if not all) of their sidepull contemporaries were single pivot. Just don't get the hate.
Love centerpulls, which is why I was willing to lay out the money for the Paul Racers. They take centerpull technology and ability to a very new level. The ones I pictured earlier are the standard size. Some day I might invest in a the smaller version to run on a more race oriented road bike.