Originally Posted by
hokiefyd
You should be able to do that with traditional cantilever brakes, too. My 750 has Tektro CR510 cantilevers and they're the lightest-feeling brakes I own, with the possible exception of the hydraulic discs on my primary bike. I suspect something else may have been wrong with your specific situation, such as perhaps the geometry of the straddle cable.
(Which, by the way, is one of the advantages of linear pull brakes, and part of the reason why traditional cantilever brakes almost fell off the map, at least on new bikes. No need for straddle cables!)
I’m not going to disagree with you , but on three of my bikes I had the same problem and with a switch over to V-brakes cured my problems.
i could never get the cantis to work for me .