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I spent enough time fannying around with cantis back when there was nothing better. I don't think there's a force in the world that could get me to go to the dustbin of history and take a set out and fit them to a bike now.
cynic-al - Member
IME the advocates of discs on road or cx bikes are those who have them...and won't in back.ADvocates of cantis or vs over discs usually have some investment in saying they ase Ione dontII, why do you need better etc
I took discs (BB7) off my cross bike and fitted cantis (TRP EuroX). The main reason was because they look nicer 🙂
Kapow!
+1 Northwind I never want to go back to Canti days, gorillia boosters, froglegs, proper shimano straddle cable length tool, lots of different blocks, just a flawed design.
Stick some mini Vees on, or normal Vees with Problem Solvers.
The canti's on my cx have been fine can lock the back will easy enough. Just spend alot of time getting them set up right.
Real cross.
My point exactly. Cantis work fine for that job(racing around relatively flat, often muddy tracks with few big descents) , in fact given the mud clearance, I would say currently they are the best option.
I was trying to make the point that many people want a CX bike, go on about how certain things work best on CX bikes, get all upset when they are contradicted but don't use the bike for its purpose. I don't use my CX bikes for their purpose either. I moaned last night when I missed a rabbit with my air rifle. The shotgun would have been the right tool for the situation really so moaning wasn't the thing to do.
For other situations other things work best.I like the disc brakes on my Cotic as the bike is used for a multitude of uses. Disc brakes mean that swapping wheels with different tyres is easy without having to stick to the same rims every time. It means that should I crisp a rim when out in the depths of mid Wales on a long rocky green lane I don't have to get the spanners out to have working brakes. The v's on my Tricross stay partly becuase they are there and thus cheap and partly becuase they work well for its use, a mix of forest track and paths 12 months of the yera and I can get pads for 3 quid from many shops.
I think its called horse's for courses.
Oh yeah, it might be my technique but am I the only one who finds that dropping wheels out is easier with cantis. V's need to be set close to the rims and when they are released they don't go bacak as far as canti's.