V brakes on road bike in city?
Hey so I have noticed that my brakes are pretty awful (Single pull side caliper). I am currently running only a front brake which is normally ok but with these brakes I seam to only have a slow down brake and cant do an emergency stop.
I have downtube shifters so dont have to worry about there not being brifters that support V brakes.
I contacted my LBS and they said it would be £30 to weld V brake posts to the front or £60 to weld both front and back. A pair of levers for V brakes would cost me about £20.
Is there a reason I shouldn't do this and should just go for modern calipers or would dual pivot calipers provide enough stopping power. I do bomb about the city sometimes at 20 MPH so I dont really feel that safe with my current brake setup.
I mostly ride it for work and google maps often takes me through little side.
Road bikes never used V brakes so im wondering if theres a good reason for this, they did however use cantis and now use disks.
If I should go for V brakes should I do both front and back or would just the front be enough?