rjb wrote: ↑20 Dec 2022, 8:25am
The Suntour self energiser's were only meant for rear braking to avoid locking up the front wheel. This is why SJSC had their tandem forks made with the brake post on the back of the blade and entailed the use of a Tektro brake booster to work them.
The introduction of V brakes rendered the SE brake to history and the sell off of their stock.
Are you saying SJSC used to sell tandems with these things fitted to the front? That was - er - brave of them...
Here's a post from Reohn2
reohn2 wrote: ↑3 Feb 2018, 1:26pm
Thorn originally fitted brake bosses behind the fork because they bought a job lot of Suntour Self Energising canti brakes when Suntour stopped production.
Sutour SE's were designed as a rear only brake,Thorn devised what they termed as a bell mechanism which was a convoluted cable affair and a bit of a pig to set up from scratch nor did it work very well,but it meant drop bars and Shimano levers could be used with the SE cantis.
How do I know?
We had them fitted to our UK made Thorn Discovery deraileur tandem.I swapped the SE's and Shimano levers for Deore V's and Tektro levers.Ah,much better
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