Originally Posted by
repechage
Way back we looked at these brakes at the shop and speculated that with bushings and spot facing that these could be good stoppers.
the " mod " dual pivots have a bit better geometry. Be interesting with Kool stop pads.
there was a brake that was advertised in the bike magazines of the early 70's, called a power brake, an interesting design kind of a cross between a power cam brake, Shimano Aero centerpull. Did not have enough extra cash to experiment
I've got a pair of the Weinmann-branded Synchrons with Kool-Stop pads and they work with either of these two arrangements.
The first is with a pair of Shimano BL-M700 levers and the second (current) is with bog-standard Weinmann levers.
They feel better - less flex - than Universal centre-pulls, but not as nice as any of the Mafac centre-pull varieties.
Part of any difference in feel is not the brake but all before, the Universals have their levers as the Mafacs etc do - and the bit "after", the pad.
I do like the combination of grip and compressibility that Mafac pads have.
These particular Kool-Stops have nice posts with cup-washers for angle adjustment and that must help compared with normal shoes.
