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Which Brake Setup?

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Old 10-05-08 | 02:23 PM
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Which Brake Setup?

Building up my Fixed and am removing the rear brake and Found this on Ebay:


Fits my theme but is the same brakes I currently have, which work, just not super great.

Then I found this at Nashbar


was thinking of using this lever:


Is the cheapy nashbar brake going to perform any better?

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CJ
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Old 10-05-08 | 02:28 PM
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the nashbar brake will preform much better than that janky anodized single pivot brake. The gold one looks super cheap and the arms will probably flex pretty hard under pressure.
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Old 10-05-08 | 11:14 PM
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i think the vegas langster has gold brakes. you could look into that.
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Old 10-05-08 | 11:45 PM
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+1 on the Nashbar brake as far as function goes.
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