Cheap poorly adjusted brakes are the only ones that scare me.
I am not a huge of D.P. brakes I think it takes too much effort to modulate your speed as they are simply meant to stop you on a pin head.
Properly tuned and with quality fresh pads/blocks any better quality brake should prove to adequate stopping power. After we rode with centerpull and single pivot brakes of all quality levels and I don't recall of hearing of too many serious accidents or deaths because of a lack of stopping power.
One of my favorite bakes, the beautiful and graceful Chorus brake was intended to modulate your speed rather simply stop you as fast as possible. It takes a very strong grip to get the wheels to lock up and I've only done it once or twice. For all there over engineering the vaunted CampI Delta brakes are designed with the same idea which is why people complained about the "Stopping Power" of them.
The beautiful and graceful Chorus Saphirino brake caliper
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Last edited by Bianchigirll; 03-29-20 at 09:13 AM.