Originally Posted by
VegasTriker
OEM brakes on Catrikes are Avid BB7 mechanical disc brakes. I set up my own Catrike 700 when I got it in 2013 and the brakes are adequate to stop the trike as needed. They will skid on the pavement if grabbed tightly but will not lift the rear wheel. Perhaps it is the tires. I use Tioga BMX front tires on the trike and they do not grab the road so much that it would not skid.
Huh. That supports my grabby hand theory.
I currently have two bents with BB7s and they don't seem particularly grabby to me. The Avid Juicys I once had on a Logo Trike were a little more grabby, but I still found them capable of decent modulation. That Logo was pretty upright too. Of the tadpoles I've owned, it was the most capable of a "stoppie" (aka endo), but I never did experience that (thank goodness).