Timeline for Can we put V brakes on a frame that had cantilever?
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 9:31 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 4, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | juhist | Mini V brakes are nowhere near the cantilever cable pull: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/71954/… | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | user59073 | I'll add more information as soon as I can! Thanks for all your help. Also, I meant the bike is missing a brake, but sure, it could use a break too. Homophones that are spelled almost equal are such a trap. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 14:42 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 4, 2021 at 11:50 | comment | added | user59073 | The bike is missing a break, and I thought that v-brakes were better. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 11:39 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | Not 100% relevant to the OP, but on cyclocross bikes (which are drop bar bikes) some of us would use mini-V brakes, which have the same cable pull as cantilever brakes. Both those brakes work with road levers. Anyway, the answer about V brakes use a different cable pull ratio and your levers are wrong is correct. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 10:57 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Are you trying to run the outer through the upper holder/hanger in the frame, which is forcing the wire to be centered ? V brakes like to have their wire off to the side, cantilevers need it dead-center. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 10:56 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Was there something wrong with the cantilever brakes that they needed replacing? | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 9:26 | answer | added | Smit-Tay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 7:24 | comment | added | Burki | There is no (correct) way of installing the brakes so that pulling on the lever pulls the pads away from the rims. Could you post a picture with the brake cable attached? | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 6:55 | answer | added | juhist | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 6:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 4, 2021 at 6:42 | history | asked | user59073 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |