Carlton green wrote: ↑24 Sep 2022, 7:42pmdrossall wrote: ↑24 Sep 2022, 4:57pm
Then there was the first time I tried good (sidepull) brakes instead of Weinmanns. Nearly went over the bars.
I’m curious, please, what side-pulls brakes did you use?
I had had Weinmann 500s and then, in fact, the rather better Universals (68s I think). A club mate built up a bike, gave up, and sold it as parts. That way, on student finances, I managed to acquire some barely-used Mark II Dura Ace brakes. It was them that caught me out by being so much better than what I was used to.
Curiously, those same brakes ended up on my Audax bike and seemed, by the end of their service life, rather poor to me. I couldn't work out whether it was because I'd since had dual pivots, or they'd genuinely deteriorated, or I'd got heavier and therefore placed more demands on them.