Originally Posted by Clyde1820

Brakes -- Prefer cantilever over v-brake from an aesthetic perspective, mostly, I'll admit. On several bikes, I have had v-brake and didn't particularly find them harder-stopping or easier to adjust than a quality canti. (Though, I'm sure the physics would show stronger clamping power, and thus braking performance. I'm just saying that I haven't needed such braking that the performance difference mattered all that much, in practice.) I'm still mulling, and am open to v-brake, but have spec'ed canti's so far.
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