New V Brakes From Grant?

[PG]

Is that what we are to infer from the latest email?

Any time frame on their arrival?

[Garth]

Yes, a new non Silver brand V-brake made for Riv.

The only references are from the latest email and from the Oct. 9 Blahg which states : We might get our own V-brake. It won't be a SILVER brand, but it'll address a few issues, tiny and medium, that current V-brakes don't seem to.

Not one other word has been printed about it. You could call and ask Grant but he can't tell you a when for what is not.

[Eric Daume]

The email did lay out two key features:

- taller arms, to clear maybe fenders over big tires

- wider opening, to open clear for big tires.

Seems like a good direction.

Eric

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 9:01 PM PG <4thgea...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is that what we are to infer from the latest email?

Any time frame on their arrival?

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[Benz, Sunnyvale, CA]

On Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 6:07:23 AM UTC-8, Eric Daume wrote:

The email did lay out two key features:

- taller arms, to clear maybe fenders over big tires

 

Shouldn't taller arms increase cable pull requirements? It'll feel more powerful with the same lever, compared to the shorter armed ones for sure. Personally, I prefer the 1st generation Shimano V-brakes with their "parallel push" mechanism that mitigates the "brake pad dive" issue associated with cantilever and "simple V" brakes. The pivots loosening over time is an issue, so perhaps we can come up with a pivot-less design, based on compliant mechanisms.

- wider opening, to open clear for big tires.

As for wider opening, isn't this an artifact of the long brake pads usually associated with V-brakes? Why not just put so-called Cyclocross brake pads (road sized pads with V-brake type mounting hardware), or something like the Koolstop shortie pads they already carry? Richard Sachs commented about manually sawing off the "tail" of V-brake pads for his CX team bikes, to make the pads shorter and functionally similar to the Koolstop shortie pads, just for this purpose.