combination V-brakes and Shimano 105 race-brake-levers
Nick Payne
handlebar brake levers that have the correct mechanical advantage to work with v-brakes.
Nick
Matt Daniel
have tolerated it for over a year. It's in the shop now getting old-style
LX cantis. Yes there was a roller-thing in here to increase the brake force
but it just isn't enough unless you constantly adjust and replace the pads.
I've seen a couple of other cyclists around my city with the same bike and
they had switched to cantis. One fellow told me that he now measures the
pad wear in months instead of days. Can't wait to get mine back from the
shop to test this theory.
Ronald Leeflang wrote in message <7gibfq$7r2$1...@zonnetje.NL.net>...
>Hello,
>
>I want to combine V-brakes with Shimano 105 brake-levers. Shimano says that
>"V-brake cantilevers and V-Brake levers must be used together. The use of
>other types of levers will adversely affect braking performance." Is there
>someone who did combine V-brakes with race brake-levers and can you tell me
>how the brake-performance is.
>
>Thanks, Ronald.
>
>
Alex Wetmore
(complete with pictures of three different devices that allow V-brakes to
work with drop-bar levers).
My preference is to use Diacompe 287-V brake levers.
alex
Ronald Leeflang <leef...@nrc.nl> wrote in message
news:7gibfq$7r2$1...@zonnetje.NL.net...
Bruce Matthews
Ronald Leeflang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to combine V-brakes with Shimano 105 brake-levers. Shimano says that
> "V-brake cantilevers and V-Brake levers must be used together. The use of
> other types of levers will adversely affect braking performance." Is there
> someone who did combine V-brakes with race brake-levers and can you tell me
> how the brake-performance is.
>
> Thanks, Ronald.
Why do you want to use V-brakes specifially? The reason that the V-brakes
are so popular with the MTB set is the lower lever pressure they give. With
the 105 levers the same low pressure is available with the simpler, cheaper and
LIGHTER canti brakes. I am running 105 aero levers on my touring commuter with
LX cantis and Koolstop pads and I get lovely one finger casual stops in dry and
wet and I can easily lock up the wheels with two fingers from the hoods. This
is a GREAT combo and I recomend it highly.
Bruce Matthews
Kees de Wildt
I bought a touring bike with V-brakes and a MTB steering bar and bar-ends
but I don't like it so I want to chance to a dropbar with race brake-levers.
Because I already have the v-brakes and like their braking-performance I try
to combine and have the best of both. That's the reason.
Bye, Ronald.
Bruce Matthews heeft geschreven in bericht <372E9588...@smartt.com>...
Eric Anderson
Travel Agents to cantis. I haven't had a chance to use the cantis yet
(haven't actually installed them) but IMHO they will be far superior to
the V-brakes. Even with the Travel Agents (which are supposed to decrease
the mechanical advantage that non-V levers have) and the pads set up
anywhere from 1-5mm from the rim, the brakes were squishy and offered very
little modulation.
YMMV of course but I would consider getting a drop bar and using
cantilevers instead.
Good luck,
Eric
In article <7gnakp$fav$1...@zonnetje.NL.net>, "Kees de Wildt"
<kdw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
:Hi Bruce,
:>
--
Eric Anderson
M.D./Ph.D Student
su...@erols.com
Brooklyn, NY
Bruce Matthews
Kees de Wildt wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I bought a touring bike with V-brakes and a MTB steering bar and bar-ends
> but I don't like it so I want to chance to a dropbar with race brake-levers.
> Because I already have the v-brakes and like their braking-performance I try
> to combine and have the best of both. That's the reason.
>
> Bye, Ronald.
>
>
>
>
I can appreciate that you want to use what you already have. V-brakes have a
great reputation for good stopping power but you have to consider that it is not
just one part but rather the whole system of levers and calipers that work
together to give the modulation feel to the brakes. You have to make your own
choices about what you like but as a suggestion why not find someone with an MTB
with LX or XT cantis and offer to trade your V's for his cantis and a little
extra cash from him/her. The extra goes into the 105 lever fund and all are
happy. The references I read in this thread to the extra parts needed to adapt
the V's to the levers sounds clunky and breakable to me. Simpler is almost
always better and in this case I think you would be pleased with how they feel.
By the way my Miyata tourer/commuter is now equiped with STX-RC shifter pods
on the drop bars near the stem. I got them to fit by lightly machining out the
mounting brackets to fit the drop bars. A metal lathe helps but a careful job
with a half round file of about the same curve as the bars will do almost as
nice a job. It's not as tidy as Ergos or STI but much less expensive and works
very nice. (MTB stuff on the back of course)
Anyway you go it is nice to give life back to a good old frame.
Bruce Matthews
Alex Wetmore
news:372FB9DB...@smartt.com...
> By the way my Miyata tourer/commuter is now equiped with STX-RC shifter
pods
> on the drop bars near the stem. I got them to fit by lightly machining
out the
> mounting brackets to fit the drop bars. A metal lathe helps but a careful
job
> with a half round file of about the same curve as the bars will do almost
as
> nice a job. It's not as tidy as Ergos or STI but much less expensive and
works
> very nice. (MTB stuff on the back of course)
I did something similar when putting a Nexus hub on a road bike, but I
mounted the shifter pod at the bar ends. Mounting near the top doesn't seem
like it would have very good ergonomics.
http://www.phred.org/~alex/bikes/trek400 has a picture of the shifter
mounted this way.
There isn't any reason to use MTB stuff in the back... Shimano road shifters
have no problem with Shimano MTB derailleurs and visa-versa. Most of my
bikes are using hybrids of these groups for their drivetrain.
alex
piazza
V-brake, leverage for road bike might not be enough for V-brake.
be careful....
regards!