Originally Posted by
Tamiya
In the very early days of V-brakes (early 1990s?)... didn't they also use the same/old brake levers as calipers? They were shorter travel with stronger pull, so early V-brakes did feel very on/off all or nothing.
I don't remember that but I have ridden bikes that had canty brakes replaced with linear pull and I find all the cable pull hysteria to be a little over stated.
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